Death : (Record no. 13700)
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| fixed length control field | 03103cam a2200277 i 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1559340118 (alk. paper) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781559340113 (alk. paper) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER | |
| ISSN | 1559340118 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BF789.D4 |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Death : |
| Remainder of title | current perspectives. |
| EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Fourth edition / |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | Mountain View, Calif. : |
| Name of publisher | Mayfield Pub. Co., |
| Year of publication or production | [1995] |
| Copyright Date | |
| Year of publication or production | MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF |
| Place of publication | MAYFIELD PUB.CO., |
| Name of publisher | 1995 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | vii, 487 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The personification of death / Robert Kastenbaum -- A befitting and appropriate death / Avery D. Weisman -- The pornography of death / Geoffrey Gorer -- Death in popular culture / Michael C. Kearl -- The terror of death / Ernest Becker -- Western attitudes toward death / Philippe Ariès -- The Black Death as a major event in world history / Yves Renouard -- AIDS as human suffering / Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman -- Strategies for bringing the AIDS epidemic under control / Malcolm Gladwell -- Death be not strange / Peter Metcalf -- Days of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico: an historical inquiry / Judith Strupp Green -- Clinical care in the AIDS epidemic / Gerald H. Friedland -- The ritual drama of mutual pretense / Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss -- Death, uses of a corpse, and social worth / David Sudnow -- Dying at Murray Manor / Jaber F. Gubrium -- Hospice care for the 1990s: a concept coming of age / Marian Gentile and Maryanne Fello -- The American way of death / Jessica Mitford -- Public behavior in the funeral home / Vanderlyn R. Pine -- Symptomatology and management of acute grief / Erich Lindemann -- A grief observed / C.S. Lewis -- Unresolved grief / Terese Rando -- Disenfranchised grief / Kenneth J. Doka -- The child's theories concerning death / Maria Nagy -- Worlds of dying children and their well siblings / Myra Bluebond-Langner -- Children traumatized by witnessing acts of personal violence: homicide, rape, or suicide behavior / Robert S. Pynoos -- The death of a child / Beverley Raphael -- Voluntary active euthanasia / Dan Brock -- When self-determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan -- The Nazi "euthanasia" program / Robert Jay Lifton -- Harvesting the dead / Willard Gaylin -- Egoistic suicide / Émile Durkheim -- Epidemiology of suicide in the United States / John L. McIntosh -- Examining suicide from a life span perspective / Judith M. Stillion and Eugene E. McDowell -- Suicide as psychache / Edwin S. Shneidman -- Kids who kill / Gordon Witkin -- This is your death / Jacob Weisberg -- Death penalty sentiment / Hans Zeisel and Alec M. Gallup -- Loss of communality at Buffalo Creek / Kai T. Erikson -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Megamurders / R.J. Rummel -- Near-death experiences: new evidence for survival? / Robert Kastenbaum -- Do we survive death? / Bertrand Russell -- The postself / Edwin S. Shneidman. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Death |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Terminally ill |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Suicide. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Bereavement |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Death. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Psychology. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Grief. |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Williamson, John B. |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Shneidman, Edwin S. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Makurdi Study Centre | Makurdi Study Centre | 10/28/2024 | BF789.D4.D42 1995 | 0009921 | Books |