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Spectacular death : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability /
An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clini...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect,
2011.
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| Colección: | Culture, disease, and well-being.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to question self-reflexively how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781841505428 1841505420 1841503223 9781841503226 |
| ISSN: | 2042-177X |