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thanatology|θænəˈtɒlədʒɪ|
[f. Gr. θάνατος death + -logy. Cf. F. thanatologie.]
The scientific study of death, its causes and phenomena. Also (orig. U.S.), the study of the effects of approaching death and of the needs of the terminally ill and their families;
1842Dunglison Med. Lex., Thanatology, a description, or the doctrine, of death. 1903Mitchell tr. Metchnikoff's Nat. Man xii. (1904) 298 The scientific study of old age and of death, two branches of science that may be called gerontology and thanatology. 1912Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 27 Apr. 1246/1 There is something more than mere transcendentalism in the Science of Thanatology. 1968Jrnl. Indiana Med. Assoc. LXI. 1159/1 (heading) Thanatology resurrected. 1969Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 13 Sept. 12/7 A Foundation of Thanatology is being formed in New York. 1972New Scientist 2 Mar. 497/2 The most disturbing issue that has arisen anew with thanatology is the problem of what to tell the terminal patient about his illness. Ibid., Another area of thanatological controversy concerns the administration of drugs to relieve the pain of the terminally ill. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 11 July 3-f/4 Workers in the new field of thanatology are encouraging parents to take their children, even small ones, to funerals. 1977New York Rev. Bks. 12 May 10/1 There is now a special branch of learning called ‘Thanatology’, and historians of death, like Philippe Ariès or Michel Vovelle, have suddenly appeared on the scene. 1979Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Dec. 1530/2 The near-dead are not dead; and the dead, whether surviving in some form or not, can be left to thanatology and eschatology.
So thanatoˈlogical a., of or pertaining to thanatology.
1862G. W. Balfour tr. Casper's Forensic Med. II. Title-p., Thanatological division. 1881G. R. Jesse in Athenæum 9 Apr. 504/1 This sums up the thanatological results of an enormous amount of cruelty in previous experiments. |