The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death (Penguin psychology)

by Rosemary Dinnage

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A number of people, some of them eminent and well-known, some of them ordinary men and women, talk about death and what it means to them. Here we have: Jonathan Miller talking expansively on the metaphors in which he has conceived of it since childhood and how they have influenced his theatre work - Roy Porter on the history of people's attitudes to it - Oxford philosopher Galen Stawson on how he overcame his terror of it despite lacking still any religious faith - and a London fireman on what it is like to face and see death every day of the week - and so on. A collection, edited by Rosemary Dinnage, who previously wrote a book of interviews about psychotherapy, "One to One".
  • ISBN10 0670827630
  • ISBN13 9780670827633
  • Publish Date 19 April 1990
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 14 May 1992
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Viking
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English