Description
Book SynopsisOffers an account of psychological and social forces underlying American cultural attitudes toward death. This book maintains that unacknowledged ambivalence is likely to undermine the beneficent goals of post-1970s reforms and harm the very people these changes were intended to help.
Trade Review"This book is enormously important, beautifully reasoned and written with crystal clarity by an author of wide scholarly experience, brilliant insights and extraordinary erudition." - Sherwin Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die"
Table of ContentsI. I Fear No Evil: Pursuing the Good Death II. I Walk through Shadows: Hidden Death III. In the Presence of My Enemies: Death at War IV. Lead Me in Paths of Righteousness: Judges and Death V. They Comfort Me: Doctors and Death VI. He Makes Me Lie Down: Choosing Death VII. Surely Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow: The Death Penalty VIII. All the Days of My Life Notes
