Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an embarrassing family secret. -- Newsweek

• | By (Author): Philippe Aries (Author)
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 26, 1975
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0801817625
• | ISBN-13: 9780801817625