Death: The Final Stage of Growth
Nonfiction work
By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Date: 1975
Source: Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth. Death: The Final Stage of Growth. London: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
About the Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–) earned an M.D. in 1957 from the University of Switzerland and a second M.D., with a specialization in psychiatry, in 1963 from the University of Colorado. She holds both Swiss and U.S. citizenship and has written nine books on the medical, philosophical, and theological implications of death. In 1995, she suffered a series of strokes and has partially recovered. She lives in Arizona.
Introduction
American medicine does not dwell on death but on the conquest of disease. Medicine, one likes to believe, has put death in retreat, postponing it until one is old and has lived a full life. The story of American medicine in the twentieth century has been the...
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