Spectacular death interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability
Connolly, Tristanne
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.;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 clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to question self-reflexively how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medi.
Կատեգորիաներ:
Տարի:
2011
Հրատարակչություն:
Intellect
Լեզու:
english
ISBN 10:
1841505420
ISBN 13:
9781841505428
Սերիաներ:
Culture disease and well-being
Ֆայլ:
PDF, 2.57 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011