Am Anfang des Buches steht ein ungewohnter Gedanke: Geburt und Tod haben viel gemeinsam, beides sind Ereignisse, für die die Natur bestimmte Programme vorgesehen hat. Sie laufen dann am besten ab, wenn sie möglichst wenig gestört werden. Palliativbetreuung und Sterbebegleitung, …
Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and th…
"As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital?s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed his body over an end-stage pa…
This book surveys more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930 to show what they reveal about American culture. In memoralizing individual citizens, these obits from the 19th and early 20th centuries make a public expression of our values.
Introduction -- Time to die? breaking the news of futility and the end of life -- A place for dying -- The moralities and politics of dying in a hospice -- Families and dying -- Nursing the dying -- Dying, healing and survivorship -- Gender and the moralities of dying -- The dyi…
Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health professionals in Australia and the United Kingdom, this book provides a critical examination of the different spheres of dying, in social and cultural context. Exploring complex issues such as the politi…
"Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequ…
"Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequ…
"This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics from the seventeenth…
In Dying in Full Detail Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live up…