"How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places wher…
"How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places wher…
Demonstrates how an unconscious fear of death motivates nearly all human goals, behaviors, and cultures, examining the role of mortality awareness in prompting social unrest and war.
Demonstrates how an unconscious fear of death motivates nearly all human goals, behaviors, and cultures, examining the role of mortality awareness in prompting social unrest and war.
"Since 1987, Joy Ufeme has written her popular column, "Insights on Death & Dying, " for Nursing journal. Now, collected here are Joy's favorite firsthand accounts of how she helped patients, families, and coworkers through some of the most stressful times in their lives." "Apar…
by Ovid Technologies, Inc, Ufema, Joy
fromLWW medical book collection
"Since 1987, Joy Ufeme has written her popular column, "Insights on Death & Dying," for Nursing journal. Now, collected here are Joy's favorite firsthand accounts of how she helped patients, families, and coworkers through some of the most stressful times in their lives." "Apart…
"Since 1987, Joy Ufeme has written her popular column, "Insights on Death & Dying," for Nursing journal. Now, collected here are Joy's favorite firsthand accounts of how she helped patients, families, and coworkers through some of the most stressful times in their lives." "Apart…
For those who yearn for some measure of control over death Final Acts, offers insight and hope. Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decis…
For those who yearn for some measure of control over death Final Acts, offers insight and hope. Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decis…
"The author shares his experiences during a year of living as if it were his last, and offers a year-long program with seven different exercises and meditations to help readers become more deeply engaged in life."--Publisher.
The author shares his experiences during a year of living as if it were his last, and offers a year-long program with seven different exercises and meditations to help readers become more deeply engaged in life.
The Neolithic of the Near East is a period of human development which saw fundamental changes in the nature of human society. It is traditionally studied for its development of domestication, agriculture, and growing social complexity. In this book Karina Croucher takes a new ap…
"Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican-American identity politics…
"This book explores death in contemporary society - or more precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of death taboo and death denial to examine how we now 'do' death. Unfolding the notion of 'spectacular death…
