Description: 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 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion.
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EAN: 9780521694292
UPC: 9780521694292
ISBN: 9780521694292
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Item Length: 22.4 cm
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Social History of Dying
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 460 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Allan Kellehear
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
