Moller powerfully critiques how modern technology and bureaucracy, along with professional doctors, therapists, and funeral directors have come to dehumanize the experience of death for both dying and their survivors.

Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality

Moller, David Wendell

Parenting & Relationships

Oxford University Press

In this masterfully written text, Moller powerfully critiques how modern technology and bureaucracy, along with professionalization, have come to dehumanize the experience of death for both the dying and their survivors. Beginning with an historical overview of traditional patterns of death and dying, Moller examines the technological advances of the medical profession and the effects, both social and individual, that modern medicine has had on our perception of death, including pain and suffering, the expanding gap between clinical and spiritual death, and how our traditional social apparatuses help us to respond to death and dying. Chapters on funerals, grief, suicide, the death of children, the holocaust, and a critique of therapeutic models illustrate how doctors have come to control the process of dying, how professional funeral directors dominate funerals, and how professional therapists channel the grief of survivors. Invaluable for psychology, nursing, and religion courses in death and dying, this text offers a penetrating synthesis of the complex personal and social issues surrounding our mortality.

Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor

This book tells the stories of patients whose stories are typically not told: the urban dying poor. By illustrating how the issues and needs of this especially vulnerable group are shaped by the experience of living in poverty, this work provides an important contribution to the growing literature on palliative care for special populations.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Dancing with Broken Bones provides a chilling portrait of what it is like to die while living in urban poverty. Via interviews with patients and their families as well as powerful photographs, the author demonstrates that a complex array of factors shape the experience of dying poor in the inner city: mistrust of physicians; inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families; a sense of alienation within the bureaucratic maze of the public hospital system; and indignities in care. By demystifying the stereotypes surrounding poverty, the book illuminates how faith and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage throughout the end of life experience. Dancing with Broken Bones is a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable people who comprise the world of inner-city dying poor.

Dancing with Broken Bones gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings that often remain unknown and hidden within a culture of broad invisibility. He demonstrates how a complex array of factors, such as mistrust of physicians, regrettable indignities in care, and inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families, shape the experience of the dying poor in the inner city. This book challenges readers to look at reality in a different way. Demystifying stereotypes that surround poverty, Moller illuminates how faith, remarkable optimism, and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage to the dying poor. Dancing with Broken Bones serves as a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable, yet inspiring, people who comprise the world of the inner city dying poor.

Dancing with Broken Bones: Poverty, Race, and Spirit-filled Dying in the Inner City

Life's End: Technocratic Dying in an Age of Spiritual Yearning

The explicit purpose of this book is to analyze dying and death in the cosmopolitan, modern setting. There is, however, an additional theme that is implicit in the analysis and observations. The portrait of dying, which is provided in the pages of the book, also tells us a great deal about life. It demonstrates that the foundation for the medicalization of death that piercingly shapes the life experience of dying persons and loved ones is a product of the ways of life in the broader culture.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

On death without dignity: The human impact of technological dying (Perspectives on death and dying series)

Sociology

Baywood Pub. Co

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Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality

Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality

Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor

Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor

Dancing with Broken Bones: Poverty, Race, and Spirit-filled Dying in the Inner City

Life's End: Technocratic Dying in an Age of Spiritual Yearning

On death without dignity: The human impact of technological dying (Perspectives on death and dying series)

Life's End: Technocratic Dying in an Age of Spiritual Yearning