Endings: A Sociology of Death and DyingOxford University Press, 1989年10月26日 - 544 頁 Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, Michael Kearl draws on anthropology, religion, politics, philosophy, the natural sciences, economics, and psychology to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death, showing how death contributes to social change and how the meanings of death are generated to serve social functions. Working from a social as well as a psychological perspective, Kearl analyzes traditional topics, including aging, suicide, grief, and medical ethics while also examining current issues such as the impact of the AIDS epidemic on social trust, governments' use of death symbolism, the business of death and dying, the political economy of doomsday weaponry, and death in popular culture. Incisive and original, this book maps the separate contributions of various social institutions to American attitudes toward death, observing the influence of each upon the broader cultural outlook on life. |
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3 Deaths Impacts on Society | 67 |
The Social Stratification of Death | 120 |
5 Death and Religion | 170 |
6 Secular Perspectives on Death | 204 |
7 Death and Work | 246 |
8 The Politics of Death | 296 |
9 Death and the Military Experience | 344 |
10 Death in Popular Culture | 379 |
11 Death and the Medical System | 406 |
The Social Psychology of Dying and Surviving | 454 |
Index | 507 |
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第 209 頁 - There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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