Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality

Moller, David W.; Moller, David Wendell

ISBN 10: 0195042964 / ISBN 13: 9780195042962

Published by Oxford University Press, 1996

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0195042964I5N00

Synopsis:

In this masterfully written text, Moller powerfully critiques how modern technology and bureaucracy, along with professionalization, have come to dehumanize the experience of death for both the dying and their survivors. Beginning with an historical overview of traditional patterns of death and dying, Moller examines the technological advances of the medical profession and the effects, both social and individual, that modern medicine has had on our perception of death, including pain and suffering, the expanding gap between clinical and spiritual death, and how our traditional social apparatuses help us to respond to death and dying. Chapters on funerals, grief, suicide, the death of children, the holocaust, and a critique of therapeutic models illustrate how doctors have come to control the process of dying, how professional funeral directors dominate funerals, and how professional therapists channel the grief of survivors. Invaluable for psychology, nursing, and religion courses in death and dying, this text offers a penetrating synthesis of the complex personal and social issues surrounding our mortality.

About the Author: David Wendell Moller is at Indiana University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket