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Vintage paperback with some page discoloration. Sold as is. Medical, Death, Psychology Published in 1969 by Macmillan, 'On Death and Dying' by Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross revolutionized the medical and psychological approach to terminal illness. The book introduced the pioneering 'five stages of denial' model—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—derived from interdisciplinary interviews with dying patients conducted by Kübler-Ross and her students at the University of Chicago. This groundbreaking work broke long-standing cultural taboos surrounding mortality and transformed palliative care, medical education, and grief counseling worldwide.