Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life /

"Final Days represents a new perspective on end-of-life decision-making, arguing that culture does make a difference but not as a checklist of customs or as the source of a moral code. The final stage of life is as rooted as any other in political and economic constraints and social relationshi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Long, Susan Orpett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Death > Social aspects > Japan.
Terminally ill > Japan.
Life and death, Power over.
Ethnopsychology > Japan.
Mort > Aspect social > Japon.
Malades en phase terminale > Japon.
Pouvoir sur la vie et la mort.
Ethnopsychologie > Japon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Death > Social aspects
Ethnopsychology
Life and death, Power over
Terminally ill
Kultur
Tod
Sterven.
Keuzes.
Volkenpsychologie.
Japan
Japan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Culture and choice at the end of life
  • Anthropology and the study of dying
  • Structuring the options for dying : Japan as a postindustrial society
  • Metaphors and scripts for the good death
  • Who decides? : social roles and relationships
  • Deciding to treat or not to treat
  • Life-and-death decisions and cultural stereotypes
  • New scripts and culture change
  • Choice and the creation of a meaningful death.

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