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Book Reviews Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1997 Confronting Death—Values, Institutions and Human when he describes the transformation of death into Mortality. By David Wendell Moller. Oxford a medical process, full of bureaucratic and techno- University Press, New York, 1996, 305 pp., logical issues that may be alien to the person, and is $17.95 (paperback). at his worst when he issues generalizations not fully based on careful research or demonstrated fact. Dr. Moller, a sociologist, has written a book dis- Rodrigo A. Munoz, M.D. cussing historical, sociologic, psychological, cultural, Book Review Editor and many other aspects of death. The universal ap- peal of the book may be hampered by some super- ficiality that is especially clear when he discusses Interpersonal Factors in the Origin and Course of forms of death better known to psychiatrists, such as Affective Disorders. Edited by C. Mundt, M. suicide and homicide. Goldstein, K. Hahlweg, and E Fiedler. Distributed Two areas are of interest to psychiatrists: the his- in North America by American Psychiatric Press, torical perspective and the challenge to Dr. Kubler- Washington, DC, 1996, 368 pp., $30. Ross' ideas. The historical perspective suggests that for many Mood Disorders Across the Lifespan. Edited http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Clinical Psychiatry Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1997 by American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists
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Medicine & Public Health; Neurology; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology
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1040-1237
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Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1997 Confronting Death—Values, Institutions and Human when he describes the transformation of death into Mortality. By David Wendell Moller. Oxford a medical process, full of bureaucratic and techno- University Press, New York, 1996, 305 pp., logical issues that may be alien to the person, and is $17.95 (paperback). at his worst when he issues generalizations not fully based on careful research or demonstrated fact. Dr. Moller, a sociologist, has written a book dis- Rodrigo A. Munoz, M.D. cussing historical, sociologic, psychological, cultural, Book Review Editor and many other aspects of death. The universal ap- peal of the book may be hampered by some super- ficiality that is especially clear when he discusses Interpersonal Factors in the Origin and Course of forms of death better known to psychiatrists, such as Affective Disorders. Edited by C. Mundt, M. suicide and homicide. Goldstein, K. Hahlweg, and E Fiedler. Distributed Two areas are of interest to psychiatrists: the his- in North America by American Psychiatric Press, torical perspective and the challenge to Dr. Kubler- Washington, DC, 1996, 368 pp., $30. Ross' ideas. The historical perspective suggests that for many Mood Disorders Across the Lifespan. Edited

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