Mapping the Perimeter of Death and Dying

Insomuch that death is both universal as well as subject to varied registers of meaning, death as a field of research occupies a necessarily inter-disciplinary position. This volume gathers multiple perspectives on death and dying composed by a selection of papers that were presented at the 9th Glob...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McAllum, Carol
Other Authors: Gorman, Madeline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2019.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Social Sciences
Sciences sociales.
social sciences.
Social sciences
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Carol McAllum and Madeline Gorman
  • Religion, Metaphysics, Reality and The Problem of Death in Modern Literature and Philosophy / Danuta Kisiała
  • Controlling Death: Philosophical Thanatology Meets Cultural Expectations / Sami Pihlström
  • Exquisite Corpses: The Depreciation of Female Death in Artistic Representation / Neil Holmstrom
  • Corporate Culture, Policy and Caring in American Hospices: A Viewpoint / Wayne Leaver
  • Defining Death: The Challenge Posed by Near-Death Experiences / Natasha Tassell-Matamua
  • The Roles of Social Actors in Accounts of Near-Death Experiences: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of France and the United States / Peter Corrigan
  • Virtual Immortality: Death, the Digital Screen and Facebook / Madeline Gorman
  • Death and Human Dignity in the Cinema of Liliana Cavani / Daniela Chana
  • Vampires and the Failure of the Nordic Welfare State / Outi Hakola
  • Graveyards on Paper: The Visual Form of Death Notices in the Estonian Press, 1865-2012 / Roosmarii Kurvits
  • Montana's Courting of Physician Aid in Dying: McCarter's Trumpet / Arthur G. Svenson
  • On Futility and a Supposed Right to Kill from Benevolent Motives: Compassion and Justice at the End of Life / Lloyd Steffen
  • Burial Lamenting in a 21st Century Vepsian Village: The Collective and the Individual / Madis Arukask
  • In Memory of Children Who Die before Being Known: A Ritual Field in a Formative Phase / Ellen Kristvik
  • The End: Before and after the Metaphor in the Contemporary Romanian Mass Media / Daniela Maci
  • Shared Collective Emotions? The Funeral of Robert Enke as a Public Event / Nils Meise.

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