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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bayatrizi, Zohreh, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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