Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-362) and index.
Contents
The Critical Challenge After Twenty-Five Years of Thanatological Reform -- Kubler-Ross's Understanding of Technology's Impact on Death and Health Sciences -- The Influence of Kubler-Ross's Five Stages on Health Sciences -- The Integration of Staging into Professional and Populist Venues -- Staging as a Psychological Defence Against Death Anxiety -- Staging as a Conceptual Framework -- The Five Stages as Clinical Thanatology: An Assessment and Treatment Paradigm? -- Critique of Stage Two: Anger -- Stage Three: Bargaining -- Stage Four: Depression -- Critique of Stage Five: Acceptance -- The Five stages as Qualitative Research -- Generality -- Control -- External and Internal Inconsistency in the Staging Paradigm: Comparison of Formats -- "Denial", "Denial and Isolation", or "Shock and Denial" -- Is It "Anger" or "Anger/Partial Denial"? -- "Bargaining" or "Depression"? -- Is It "Depression" or "Bargaining"? -- Is It "Acceptance" or "Acceptance and Decathexis"? -- The Significance and Impact of Kubler-Ross's Work -- Kubler-Ross as a Research Scientist -- Kubler-Ross as a Catalyst for Reform -- The Transition from Psychology to Theology -- Psychiatry and Chaplaincy's History of Collaboration -- Tracing the Origins of the Staging Theory -- The Search for an Antecedent Theory Used in the Seminar -- Carl Nighswonger's Theory -- Drama or Stage One -- Drama or Stage Four -- Drama or Stage Six -- Nighswonger's and Kubler-Ross's Theories on Dying -- Drama versus Stages: Structure's Influence on Meaning -- The Original Theoretician.