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List of contents
CHAPTER 1 Encountering M ortality: Prelim inary Reflections, CHAPTER 2 Contemplating Death: Human Voice, CHAPTER 3 The Problem of Meaning: Dying in an Age of Spiritual Longing, CHAPTER 4 Fear and Denial in the Modern Context, CHAPTER 5 Technological Medicine, Technocratic Physicians and Human Dying, Fellowship and Dying: The Problem of Detachment, CHAPTER 7 Impersonalism, Dying, and Social Organization of the Hospital, CHAPTER 8 The Stigma of Dying, CHAPTER 9 Approaching Omega: The Roller Coaster of Dying, CHAPTER 10 A Concluding Statement: Technicism, Social Isolation, Medicalization, and Remedicalization of Dying.
About the author
David Wendell Moller
Summary
Analyzes dying and death in the cosmopolitan setting. While providing a portrait of dying, this book also tells us a great deal about life. It demonstrates that the foundation for the medicalization of death that shapes the life experience of dying persons and loved ones is a product of the ways of life in the broader culture.
