Dying, Death, and Grief
M. A. Simpson
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Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMP; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 447.
Death is a very badly kept secret; such an unmentionable and taboo topic that there are over 750 books now in print asserting that we are ignoring the subject.At no time in history has there been so much attention paid to death as a subject for scholarly and literary study,clinical and research attention,or for cynical commercial exploitation. We have exceeded even the literary genre of the Ars Moriendi,which advanced the study of the art of dying some 500 years ago.Such an interest has a long and distinguished history,as we have demonstrated in the recent Arno Press series of reprints of ... Read more
Death is a very badly kept secret; such an unmentionable and taboo topic that there are over 750 books now in print asserting that we are ignoring the subject.At no time in history has there been so much attention paid to death as a subject for scholarly and literary study,clinical and research attention,or for cynical commercial exploitation. We have exceeded even the literary genre of the Ars Moriendi,which advanced the study of the art of dying some 500 years ago.Such an interest has a long and distinguished history,as we have demonstrated in the recent Arno Press series of reprints of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468434705
SKU
V9781468434705
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