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Making sense of dying and death /
This book aims to extend upon the growing body of literature concerned with dying and death. The book analyses various experiences and representations of dying and death from the perspective of academic disciplines as diverse as theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and literature. The rati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2004.
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Life in the heart / Asa Kasher
- Sorrow unconsoling and inconsolable sorrow : grief as a moral and religious practice / Darlene Fozard Weaver
- Understanding our pain : the experiences of African American women through the death and dying process / Clarice Ford
- Terror of death in the wake of September 11th : is this the end of death denial? / Kate Arthur
- Kafka's God of suffocation : the futility of 'facing' death / David Johnson
- Personal and collective fears of death : a complex intersection for cancer survivors / Heather McKenzie
- Last matters : the latent meanings of contemporary funeral rites / Mira Crouch
- Neither dead-nor-alive : organ donation and the paradox of 'living corpses' / Vera Kalitzkus
- Avoidable death : multiculturalism and respecting patient autonomy / Andrew Fagan
- The "euthanasia underground" and its implications for the harm minimization debate : an Australian perspective / Roger S. Magnusson
- "Suicides have a special language" : practicing literary suicide with Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman / Clare Emily Clifford
- Time to die : the temporality of death and the philosophy of singularity / Gary Peters.