Speaking of death : America's new sense of mortality /
This volume spotlights America's new mortality awareness since 9/11, and the ways that has changed us, from flourishing college courses on death, to popular television shows dealing with death, increasingly common new methods of disposing of dead bodies.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2009.
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| ISBN: | 0313364273 9780313364273 1282486322 9781282486324 9786612486326 6612486325 |
| ISSN: | 1546-8070 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Robert Belknap
- Preface: Facing our mortality
- Introduction: The age of encounter : the new reality
- Part I: Manifestations of mortality awareness
- From concealment to recognition : the discourse on death, dying, and grief / Christina Staudt
- Cancer patients facing death : is the patient who focuses on living in denial of his/her death? / Sherry R. Schachter
- The afterlife in modern America / Alan F. Segal
- Life extension : proponents, opponents, and the social impact of the defeat of death / Kevin T. Keith
- Covering (up?) death : a close reading of Time magazine's September 11, 2001, special issue / Christina Staudt
- Part II: From awareness to acceptance
- Acceptance of mortality : what is confirmed, what is denied / Michael K. Bartalos
- Death, terror, culture, and violence : a psychoanalytic perspective / Jerry S. Piven
- When the time is ripe for acceptance : dying, with a small "d" / Thomas A. Caffrey
- Alive and content : the art of living with mortality awareness / Michael K. Bartalos
- Part III: Societal aspects of the acceptance of dying
- Coping with mortality : a societal perspective / Michael K. Bartalos
- The quest for permanence : scientific visions of surviving the eventual demise of our universe / Michael K. Bartalos.