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Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality

Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality

by David Wendell Moller (Author)

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    Illustrated 1996

    $127.65
Synopsis

Moller powerfully critiques how modern technology and bureaucracy, along with professional doctors, therapists, and funeral directors have come to dehumanize the experience of death for both dying and their survivors.

$127.65

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Published: 13 Jun 1996
ISBN 10: 0195042964
ISBN 13: 9780195042962

Media Reviews
Advance Praise for Confronting Death: This book breaks new ground. It is an encyclopaedic, thoughtful, well-crafted analysis of the American way of death, and should be regarded as a landmark in the future. --Vern Bengtson, Director, Social Sciences Division, Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California This book is a rich source of information and offers thoughtful reflection which can serve as a valuable text for a course exploring death and dying. --Maureen Muldoon, University of Windsor