01--Death Theory, Insights, Medical, Etc.

Backer, Barbara A., Natalie Hannon & Joan Young Gregg.  To listen, to comfort, to care:  reflections on death and dying.  Albany, NY:  Delmar Publishers, 1994.  187p.

Bane, J. Donald, ed.  Death and ministry:  pastoral care of the dying and the bereaved.  New York:  Seabury Press, 1975.  278p.

Barnard, Christiaan.  Good life good death:  a doctor's case for euthanasia and suicide.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1980.  146p.

Beauchamp, Tom L., & Robert M. Veatch, eds.  Ethical issues in death and dying.  2nd ed.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 1996.  458p.

Becker, Ernest.  The denial of death.  New York:  Free Press, 1973.  314p.

Bertman, Sandra L.  Facing death:  images, insights, and interventions:  a handbook for educators, healthcare professionals, and counselors.  New York:  Hemisphere, 1991.  214p.

Bloom, Michael V.  Adolescent-parental separation.  New York:  Gardner Press:  distributed by Halsted Press, 1980.  177p.

Camps, Francis E., & Edward Shotter, eds.  Matters of life and death.  London:  Darton, Longman & Todd, 1970.  60p.  Fruit of the lectures given since 1963 under the auspices of the London Medical Group.

Cartwright, Ann, Lisbeth Hockey & John L. Anderson.  Life before death.  London;  Boston:  Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.  300p.  Terminally ill & dying.

Corr, Charles A., & Donna M. Corr, eds.  Hospice care:  principles and practice.  New York:  Springer Pub. Co., 1983.  364p.

Davidson, Glen W., ed.  The Hospice:  development and administration.  Washington:  Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1978.  2nd ed., 1985, 232p.

Day, Stacey B.  Cancer, stress, and death.  2nd ed.  New York:  Plenum Medical Book Co., 1986.  362p.  Revised versions of the papers originally presented at a symposium held in Montreal in 1977, with new contributions.

DeBellis, Robert, & Jeanne D. Cole, et al, eds.  Thanatology curriculum-medicine.  For the Foundation of Thanatology.  New York:  Haworth Press, 1988.  132p.  Also been published as Loss, grief & care, volume 2, 1988.

Defining death:  a report on the medical, legal and ethical issues in the determination of death.  President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.  Washington, DC:  The Commission:  GPO,  1981.  166p.

Epstein, Charlotte.  Nursing the dying patient:  learning processes for interaction.  Reston, VA:  Reston Pub. Co., 1975.  210p.

Evans, Jocelyn.  Living with a man who is dying.  London:  Blond, 1971.  147p.

Feigenberg, Loma.  Terminal care:  friendship contracts with dying cancer patients.  Translated Terminalvård by Patrick Hort.  New York:  Brunner/Mazel, 1980.  282p.  Doctoral thesis, Karolinska institutet.  Psychotherapy.

Fleming, Thomas Paul, & Lillian G. Kutscher, et al, ed.  Communicating issues in thanatology.  New York:  MSS Information Corp., 1976.  343p.

Garfield, Charles A., ed.  Psychosocial care of the dying patient.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1978.  430p.

Goldberg, Ivan K., Austin H. Kutscher, Sidney Malitz & Lilliam G. Kutscher, eds.  Pain, anxiety, and grief:  pharmacotherapeutic care of the dying patient and the bereaved.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1986.  228p.

Gonda, Thomas Andrew, & John Edward Ruark.  Dying dignified:  the health professional's guide to care.  Photographs by Mark Tuschman.  Menlo Park, CA:  Addison-Wesley, 1984.  317p. 

Gottschalk, Louis August, & Robert H. Cravey.  Toxicological and pathological studies on psychoactive drug-involved deaths.  Davis, CA:  Biomedical Publications, 1980.  472p.

Grollman, Earl A., ed.  Concerning death: a practical guide for the living.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1974.  365p.

Hardt, Dale V.  Death, the final frontier.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1979.  194p.  Psychological aspects & attitudes to death.

Heifetz, Milton D., & Charles Mangel.  The right to die:  a neurosurgeon speaks of death with candor.  New York:  Putnam, 1975.  234p.

Herter, Frederic P., & Lillian G. Kutscher, eds.  Human and ethical issues in the surgical care of patients with life-threatening disease.  Springfield, IL:  Thomas, 1986.  246p.

Hetzler, Florence M., Austin H. Kutscher & Lillian G. Kutscher, eds.  Philosophical aspects of thanatology.  New York:  MSS Information Corp.:  Arno Press, 1978.  2 volumes.

Heuse, Georges A.  Guide de la mort.  Préface de Claude Veil.  Paris:  Masson, 1975.  263p.  Death, terminal care & funeral rites.

Keleman, Stanley.  Living your dying.  New York:  Random House, 1975.  160p.

Krant, Melvin J.  Dying and dignity: the meaning and control of a personal death.  Springfield, IL:  Thomas, 1974.  154p.

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth.  Living with death and dying.  New York:  Macmillan, 1981.  181p.

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth.  Questions and answers on death and dying.  New York:  Macmillan, 1974.  177p.

Langone, John.  Vital signs:  the way we die in America.  Boston:  Little, Brown, 1974.  363p.

Lawrence, Madelaine.  In a world of their own:  experiencing unconsciousness.  Westport, CT:  Praeger, 1997.  186p.  Loss of consciousness & near-death experiences.

Leviton, Daniel, ed.  Horrendous death, health, and well-being.  New York:  Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1991.  366p.  Including nuclear warfare & violence.

Lifton, Robert Jay, & Eric Olson.  Living and dying.  New York:  Praeger, 1974.  156p.

Lifton, Robert Jay, Shuichi Kato & Michael R. Reich.  Six lives, six deaths:  portraits from modern Japan.  New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 1979.  305p.

Lifton, Robert Jay.  The life of the self:  toward a new psychology.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1976.  190p.  Psychology, symbolism & death.

Lindenberg, Steven Phillip.  Group psychotherapy with people who are dying.  Springfield, IL:  C.C. Thomas, 1983.  358p.

Lynch, Thomas.  The undertaking:  life studies from the dismal trade.  New York:  W.W. Norton, 1997.  202p.

Maguire, Daniel C.  Death by choice.  Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, 1974.  224p.

Montefiore, Hugh, et al.  Death anxiety.  New York:  MSS Information Corp., 1973.  245p.  Articles previously published in various journals.

Rabin, Pauline L., & David Rabin, eds.  To provide safe passage:  the humanistic aspects of medicine.  New York:  Philosophical Library, 1985.  258p.

Rudinger, Edith, ed.  What to do when someone dies.  London:  Consumers' Association, 1969.  125p.  Funeral rites in Great Britain.

Saunders, Cicely M., Dame, & Mary Baines.  Living with dying:  the management of terminal disease.  2nd ed.  Oxford;  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1989.  67p.

Silverstein, Alvin.  Conquest of death.  New York:  Macmillan, 1979.  242p.  Medical advances in 20th century.

Simpson, Michael A.  The facts of death:  a complete guide for being prepared.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1979.  276p.

Smith, George Patrick.  Medical-legal aspects of cryonics:  prospects for immortality.  Port Washington, NY:  Associated Faculty Press, 1983.  81p.

Stern, E. Mark, ed.  Psychotherapy and the grieving patient.  New York:  Harrington Park Press, 1985.  138p.  Originally published in 1985 by the Haworth Press, Inc. It was also published as the Psychotherapy patient, volume 2, 1985."

Tallmer, Margot, & Lillian G. Kutscher, et al, eds.  The Life-threatened elderly.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1984.  359p.

Torpie, Richard J., & Lillian G. Kutscher, et al, eds.  Radiation therapy and thanatology.  Springfield, IL:  C.C. Thomas, 1984.  175p.

Volkan, Vamik D.  Linking objects and linking phenomena:  a study of the forms, symptoms, metapsychology, and therapy of complicated mourning.  Foreword by Harold F. Searles.  New York:  International Universities Press, 1981.  398p.

Warren, William George.  Death education and research:  critical perspectives.  New York:  Haworth Press, 1989.  212p.  Also been published as Gerontology & geriatrics education, volume 9, 1988/89.

Wass, Hannelore, Felix M. Berardo & Robert A. Neimeyer.  Dying:  facing the facts.  2nd ed.  Washington:  Hemisphere Pub. Corp., 1988.  472p.

Weir, Robert F., ed.  Ethical issues in death and dying.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1977.  405p.  2nd ed.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1986.  388p.

Weisman, Avery D.  The realization of death:  a guide for the psychological autopsy.  Foreword by Edwin S. Shneidman.  New York:  J. Aronson, 1974.  207p. 

Zeligs, Rose.  Children's experience with death.  Springfield, IL:  Thomas, 1974.  247p.

Zugibe, Frederick T.  The cross and the shroud:  a medical inquiry into the crucifixion.  New York:  Paragon House Publishers, 1988.  236p.