A brief history of death /

As humans, death-its certainty, its inevitability-consumes us. We make it the subject of our literature, our art, our philosophy, and our religion. Our feelings and attitudes toward our mortality and its possible afterlives have evolved greatly from the early days of mankind. Collecting these views...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spellman, W. M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Reaktion Books, 2014.
Temas:
Death.
Medicine > History.
Death
Thanatology > history
History of Medicine
Mort.
Médecine > Histoire.
deaths.
history of medicine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Medicine
Tod
Westliche Welt
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:As humans, death-its certainty, its inevitability-consumes us. We make it the subject of our literature, our art, our philosophy, and our religion. Our feelings and attitudes toward our mortality and its possible afterlives have evolved greatly from the early days of mankind. Collecting these views in this topical and instructive book, W.M. Spellman considers death and dying from every angle in the Western tradition, exploring how humans understand and come to terms with the end of life. Using the work of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, Spellman examines how interpreting.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (253 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-247) and index.
ISBN:9781780233055
1780233051

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