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Talking about death is now fashionable, but how should we talk? Who should we listen to - priests, doctors, cousellors, or ourselves? Has psychology replaced religion in telling us how to die? This provocative book takes a sociological look at the revival of interest in death, focusing on the hospic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walter, Tony, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Temas:
Thanatology.
Death > Social aspects.
Death.
Death
Mort > Aspect social.
Mort.
deaths.
Death > Social aspects
Thanatology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter Introduction
  • part Part I Doing it my way
  • chapter 1 The dying of death
  • chapter 2 The revival of death
  • chapter 3 The two strands of revival
  • chapter 4 Traditional, modern and neo-modern death
  • part Part II
  • chapter 5 Stories and meta-stories
  • chapter 6 Systems for listening
  • chapter 7 Expectations and assumptions
  • chapter 8 The listening community or the defining community?
  • chapter 9 Gaining control, losing control
  • chapter 10 Which person?
  • chapter 11 Routinisation
  • chapter 12 Disposal
  • chapter 13 Conclusion
  • Facing death without tradition ... but in company.

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