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Death and the Quest for Meaning : Essays
in Honor of Herman Feifel
by Stephen
Strack (Editor), Herman
Feifel (Editor)
ISBN: 0-7657-0014-X
Page count: 440 pages
Hardcover (February
1997)
Jason Aronson
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This book challenges us to explore the meanings that death has for
contemporary men and women. It covers all aspects of thanatology, such as
the study of death and dying and the care of the dying and bereaved. It
examines the role of the caregiver, the process of grief and bereavement,
religious and spiritual perspectives, how children and adolescents cope
with death, and cutting-edge issues such as horrendous death, assisted
death, and the future of death.
- Aronson
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Table
of Contents
Preface Stephen Strack
Contributors
Introduction: A Personal Memoir of Herman Feifel
Charles Ansell
PART I. HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
1 Death Attitudes in Contemporary Perspective Robert A. Neimeyer
Barry Fortner
2 Death, Technology, and Gender in Postmodern American Society
Jeanne Quint Benoliel
3 Hospice's Path to the Future Florence S. Wald
4 Judaism's Import for End-of-Life Issues
Elliot N. Dorff
5 Modernist Attitudes toward Death Alan W. Friedman
PART II: CAREGIVERS
6 Quality of Life in Patients with Life-Threatening Illness
Balfour M. Mount
S. Robin Cohen
7 Helping People Die
Laurens P. White
8 From the Very First Patient to the Very Last: Soul Pain, Aesthetic Distance, and the Training of Physicians
Sandra L. Bertman
PART III: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
9 Children, Adolescents, and Death Hannelore Wass
10 Children and Questions about Death
Charles A. Corr
PART IV: GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT
11 The Quest for Meaning in Illness, Dying, Death, and Bereavement
Kenneth J. Doka
12 Vicarious Bereavement Therese A. Rando
PART V: CURRENT TOPICS ON DEATH
13 Ambiguity in Aging
Avery D. Weisman
14 Horrendous Death
Daniel Leviton
15 Death, Society, and the Quest for Immortality
Robert Fulton
16 The Knowledge of Death as a Stimulus to Creativity
John D. Morgan
17 What Is the Future of Death? Robert Kastenbaum
Herman Feifel--Then and Now
Appendix: Highlights of Herman Feifel's Career
Print Bibliography of Herman Feifel
Credits
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