03559nam 2200709 a 450 991081587260332120240506022023.0979-82-16-01735-61-282-48632-297866124863260-313-36427-310.5040/9798216017356(CKB)2670000000009915(EBL)491637(OCoLC)298460404(SSID)ssj0000442668(PQKBManifestationID)11301950(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442668(PQKBWorkID)10446704(PQKB)10917481(Au-PeEL)EBL491637(CaPaEBR)ebr10369954(CaONFJC)MIL248632(MiAaPQ)EBC491637(OCoLC)777912208(DLC)BP9798216017356BC(EXLCZ)99267000000000991520080707d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpeaking of death America's new sense of mortality /edited by Michael K. Bartalos ; foreword by Robert Belknap1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger,2008.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,20241 online resource (345 p.)Psychology, religion, and spirituality,1546-8070Description based upon print version of record.0-313-36426-5 3-13-364266-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / by Robert Belknap -- Preface: Facing our mortality -- Introduction: The age of encounter : the new reality -- Part I: Manifestations of mortality awareness -- From concealment to recognition : the discourse on death, dying, and grief / Christina Staudt -- Cancer patients facing death : is the patient who focuses on living in denial of his/her death? / Sherry R. Schachter -- The afterlife in modern America / Alan F. Segal -- Life extension : proponents, opponents, and the social impact of the defeat of death / Kevin T. Keith -- Covering (up?) death : a close reading of Time magazine's September 11, 2001, special issue / Christina Staudt -- Part II: From awareness to acceptance -- Acceptance of mortality : what is confirmed, what is denied / Michael K. Bartalos -- Death, terror, culture, and violence : a psychoanalytic perspective / Jerry S. Piven -- When the time is ripe for acceptance : dying, with a small "d" / Thomas A. Caffrey -- Alive and content : the art of living with mortality awareness / Michael K. Bartalos -- Part III: Societal aspects of the acceptance of dying -- Coping with mortality : a societal perspective / Michael K. Bartalos -- The quest for permanence : scientific visions of surviving the eventual demise of our universe / Michael K. Bartalos.This volume spotlights America's new mortality awareness since 9/11, and the ways that has changed us, from flourishing college courses on death, to popular television shows dealing with death, increasingly common new methods of disposing of dead bodies,Psychology, religion, and spirituality.DeathUnited StatesDeath306.90973Bartalos Michael K1660431DLCDLCBTCTAYDXCPUKMC#PBWXDLCBOOK9910815872603321Speaking of death4015630UNINA