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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Connolly, Tristanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Intellect, 2011.
Colección:Culture, disease, and well-being.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Aestheticizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover.