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Mapping the Perimeter of Death and Dying
Insomuch that death is both universal as well as subject to varied registers of meaning, death as a field of research occupies a necessarily inter-disciplinary position. This volume gathers multiple perspectives on death and dying composed by a selection of papers that were presented at the 9th Glob...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material / Carol McAllum and Madeline Gorman
- Religion, Metaphysics, Reality and The Problem of Death in Modern Literature and Philosophy / Danuta Kisiała
- Controlling Death: Philosophical Thanatology Meets Cultural Expectations / Sami Pihlström
- Exquisite Corpses: The Depreciation of Female Death in Artistic Representation / Neil Holmstrom
- Corporate Culture, Policy and Caring in American Hospices: A Viewpoint / Wayne Leaver
- Defining Death: The Challenge Posed by Near-Death Experiences / Natasha Tassell-Matamua
- The Roles of Social Actors in Accounts of Near-Death Experiences: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of France and the United States / Peter Corrigan
- Virtual Immortality: Death, the Digital Screen and Facebook / Madeline Gorman
- Death and Human Dignity in the Cinema of Liliana Cavani / Daniela Chana
- Vampires and the Failure of the Nordic Welfare State / Outi Hakola
- Graveyards on Paper: The Visual Form of Death Notices in the Estonian Press, 1865-2012 / Roosmarii Kurvits
- Montana's Courting of Physician Aid in Dying: McCarter's Trumpet / Arthur G. Svenson
- On Futility and a Supposed Right to Kill from Benevolent Motives: Compassion and Justice at the End of Life / Lloyd Steffen
- Burial Lamenting in a 21st Century Vepsian Village: The Collective and the Individual / Madis Arukask
- In Memory of Children Who Die before Being Known: A Ritual Field in a Formative Phase / Ellen Kristvik
- The End: Before and after the Metaphor in the Contemporary Romanian Mass Media / Daniela Maci
- Shared Collective Emotions? The Funeral of Robert Enke as a Public Event / Nils Meise.