New meanings of death / [edited by] Herman Feifel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feifel, Herman.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terminal care.

Death.

Attitude to Death.

Terminal Care.

Medical Subjects:

Attitude to Death.

Death.

Terminal Care.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [1977]

Contents:

Death in contemporary America / Herman Feifel

Death and development through the lifespan / Robert Kastenbaum

Meanings of death to children / Myra Bluebond-Langner

The college student and death / Edwin S. Shneidman

Death and the physician: mortuis vivos docent / Laurens P. White

The psychiatrist and the inexorable / Avery D. Weisman

Nurses and the human experience of dying / Jeanne Quint Benoliel

Impact of death on the health-care professional / Charles A. Garfield

Dying they live: St. Christopher's hospice / Cicely Saunders.

Make today count / Orville E. Kelly

Terminal candor and the coda syndrome: a tandem view of fatal illness / Lois & Arthur Jaffe

Dying and preparing for death: a view of families / Richard A. Kalish

Immediate postdeath activities in the United States / Howard C. Raether & Robert C. Slater

Death education / Daniel Leviton

The sense of immortality: on death and the continuity of life / Robert J. Lifton

Law for those who are to die / Thomas L. Shaffer & Robert E. Rodes

Death and modern poetry / Michael A. Simpson

Dying to power: death and the search for self-esteem / David L. Gutmann

Epilogue / Herman Feifel.

Notes:

"A Blakiston publication."

Originally published in 1959 under title: The meaning of death.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: New meanings of death.

ISBN:

0070203504

9780070203501

0070203490

9780070203495

OCLC:

2798615