| Description |
xvi, 448 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. I. Theoretical discussions on death. Dead on arrival / Davis Sudnow -- The sense of immorality / Robert J. Lifton -- Death and social structure / Robert Blauner -- The sociology of death / Robert Bendiksen -- pt. II. Attitudes and responses toward death. Is death a matter of indifference? / Irving E. Alexander, Randolph S. Colley and Arthur M. Adlerstein -- Attitudes toward death among the aged / Wendell M. Swenson -- Affective responses to the concept of death in a population of children and early adolescents / Irving E. Alexander and Arthur M. Adlerstein -- Age, personality, and health correlates of death concerns in normal aged individuals / Paul J. Rhudick and Andrew S. Dibner -- Religious conviction and fear of death among the health and terminally ill / Herman Feifel -- The construction and validation of a death anxiety scale / Donald I. Templer -- Awareness contexts and social interaction / Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss -- The sacred and the secular: attitudes of the American public toward death, funerals, and funeral directors / Robert Fulton -- pt. III. Grief and mourning: the reaction to death. Psychological effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima: the theme of death / Robert J. Lifton -- Symptomatology and management of acute grief / Erich Lindemann -- A study of normal bereavement / Paula Clayton, Lynn Desmarais, and George Winokur -- Bereavement and mental health / Edmund H. Volkart and Stanley T. Michael -- Death, delinquency, and the mourning process / Mervyn Shoor and Mary H. Speed -- Strength of adult ego following childhood bereavement / Josephine R. Hilgard, Martha F. Newman, and Fern Fisk -- Death and the child: an anterospective test of the childhood bereavement and later behavior disorder hypothesis / Robert Bendiksen and Robert Fulton -- Predilection to death / Avery D. Weisman and Thomas P. Hackett -- Effect of residential change on the temporal distance to death of terminal cancer patients / Richard Schulz and David Aderman -- A psychosocial aspect of terminal care: anticipatory grief / Robert Fulton and Julie Fulton -- Social uses of funeral rites / David G. Mandelbaum -- The city of the dead / W. Lloyd Warner -- The gift of life and its reciprocation / Talcott Parsons, Renee C. Fox, and Victor M. Lidz -- Widowhood status in the United States: perspective on a neglected aspect of the family life cycle / Felix Berardo -- The cost of dying: a sociological analysis of funeral expenditures / Vanderlyn R. Pine and Derek L. Phillips |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 434-441 |
| Subject |
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Death.
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Grief.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Death.
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| Author |
Bendiksen, Robert.
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| LC no. |
76020483 |
| ISBN |
0913486787 |
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