Life Sentences : The Modern Ordering of Mortality /

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Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, an...

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Autor principal: Bayatrizi, Zohreh, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Death > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Pouvoir sur la vie et la mort > Aspect social > Histoire.
Mort > Aspect social > Histoire.
Mort > Aspect social > Occident > Histoire.
Life and death, Power over > Social aspects > History.
Death > Social aspects > History.
Death > Social aspects > Western countries > History.
Western countries.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the modern ordering of mortality
  • Thou shalt not die violently: death and the modern problematic of order
  • Thou shalt not die prematurely: the political economy of death
  • Thou shalt not kill thyself: the de-moralization of suicide
  • Thou shalt not die an undignified death: the discursive constitution of death with dignity
  • Conclusion: thou shalt die an orderly death.

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