A social history of dying
(Publisher-supplied data) Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3842518x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The stone age
- The dawn of mortal awareness
- Otherworld journeys: death as dying
- The first challenge: anticipating death
- The pastoral age
- The emergence of sedentism
- The birth of the good death
- The second challenge: preparing for death
- The age of the city
- The rise and spread of cities
- The birth of the well-managed death
- The third challenge: taming death
- The cosmopolitan age
- The exponential rise of modernity
- The birth of the shameful death
- The final challenge: timing death.
