The Meaning of Death.
New York, NY: The Blakiston Division / McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1959. First Edition (second printing). Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 352pp. Light tan cloth spine, black papered boards. Index. B/w plates.Reflections on the phenomenon of death from a variety of different outlooks, with contributors from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, physiology, anthropology, art, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology and religion. Part 1. Theoretical outlooks on death: 1. The soul and death by C. G. Jung; 2. The fear of death by Charles W. Wahl; 3. The eternal now, by Paul Tillich; 4. Existentialism and death, by Walter Kaufmann; 5. The ideology of death, by Herbert Marcuse; Part 2. Developmental orientation toward death: 6. Child's view of death, by Maria H. Nagy; 7. Time and death in adolescence, by Robert Kastenbaum; 8.Attitudes toward death in some normal and mentally ill populations, by Herman Feifel. Part 3. Death concept in cultural and religious fields: 9.Mortality and modern literature, by Frederick J. Hoffman; 10. Modern art and death, by Carla Gottlieb; 11. Social uses of funeral rites, by David G. Mandelbaum; 12. Grief and religion, by Edgar N. Jackson. Part 4. Clinical and experimental studies: 13. Personality factors in dying patients, by Arnold A. Hutschnecker; 14. Treatment of the dying person,by Gerald J. Aronson; 15. The doctor & death, by August M. Kasper; 16. Death & religion, by Irving E. Alexander and Arthur M. Alderstein; 17.Suicide and death, by Edwin S. Shneidman & Norman L. Farberow; 18. The phenomenon of unexplained sudden death in animals and man, by Curt P. Richter. Part 5. Discussion: 19. Discussion, Gardner Murphy. Name Index. Subject index. Spine ends slightly chafed, page-edges age-toned, otherwise a solid, clean VG copy in shabby dust jacket (dust jacket rubbed & chipped discolored, 1 1/2" square chip missing from bottom of spine, minor loss at top of spine and edges). Item #15094
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