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9780765700148

Death and the Quest for Meaning Essays in Honor of Herman Feifel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765700148

  • ISBN10:

    076570014X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-02-01
  • Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

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Table of Contents

Preface xi(4)
Stephen Strack
Contributors xv(4)
Introduction: A Personal Memoir of Herman Feifel xix
Charles Ansell
PART I. HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES 1(134)
1 Death Attitudes in Contemporary Perspective
3(28)
Robert A. Neimeyer
Barry Fortner
2 Death, Technology, and Gender in Postmodern American Society
31(26)
Jeanne Quint Benoliel
3 Hospice's Path to the Future
57(22)
Florence S. Wald
4 Judaism's Import for End-of-Life Issues
79(30)
Elliot N. Dorff
5 Modernist Attitudes toward Death
109(26)
Alan W. Friedman
PART II: CAREGIVERS 135(56)
6 Quality of Life in Patients with Life-Threatening Illness
137(16)
Balfour M. Mount
S. Robin Cohen
7 Helping People Die
153(10)
Laurens P. White
8 From the Very First Patient to the Very Last: Soul Pain, Aesthetic Distance, and the Training of Physicians
163(28)
Sandra L. Bertman
PART III: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 191(48)
9 Children, Adolescents, and Death
193(24)
Hannelore Wass
10 Children and Questions about Death
217(22)
Charles A. Corr
PART IV: GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT 239(36)
11 The Quest for Meaning in Illness, Dying, Death, and Bereavement
241(16)
Kenneth J. Doka
12 Vicarious Bereavement
257(18)
Therese A. Rando
PART V: CURRENT TOPICS ON DEATH 275(108)
13 Ambiguity in Aging
277(24)
Avery D. Weisman
14 Horrendous Death
301(28)
Daniel Leviton
15 Death, Society, and the Quest for Immortality
329(16)
Robert Fulton
16 The Knowledge of Death as a Stimulus to Creativity
345(16)
John D. Morgan
17 What Is the Future of Death?
361(20)
Robert Kastenbaum
Herman Feifel--Then and Now
381(2)
Appendix: Highlights of Herman Feifel's Career 383(6)
Print Bibliography of Herman Feifel 389(8)
Credits 397(2)
Index 399

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