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Life Sentences : the Modern Ordering of Mortality.
Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2008.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Modern Ordering of Mortality
- 1 Thou Shalt Not Die Violently: Death and the Modern Problematic of Order
- 2 Thou Shalt Not Die Prematurely: The Political Economy of Death
- 3 Thou Shalt Not Kill Thyself: The De-moralization of Suicide
- 4 Thou Shalt Not Die an Undignified Death: The Discursive Constitution of Death with Dignity
- Conclusion: Thou Shalt Die an Orderly Death
- References
- Index of Names
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- I
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- Y
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- Index of Subjects
- A
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- D
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- H
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