Sociology: death and dying Books
Zone Books Death and the Idea of Mexico
Book SynopsisDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from the sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican American identity politics, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz's innovative study marks a turning point in understanding Mexico's rich and unique use of death imagery. Unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans, whose denial of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people display and cultivate a jovial familiarity with death. This intimacy with death has become the cornerstone of Mexico's national identity.It is tempting to view this rich elaboration of death imagery as yet another example of an invented tradition, that is, a cult shaped by the modern state's cultural policies or by the narrow interests of contemporary identity politics. Lomnitz takes a different approach. Rather than flattening out the tradition by insisting only on the ways it is willfully manipulated, this book focuses on the dialectical relationship between dying, killing, and the administration of death, and the very formation of the colonial state, of a rich and variegated popular culture, and of the Mexican nation itself. The elevation of Mexican intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a moment within that history within a history in which the key institutions of society are built around the claims of the fallen.Based on a wide range of sources from missionary testimonies to newspaper cartoons, from masterpieces of artistic vanguards to accounts of public executions and political assassinations Death and the Idea of Mexico moves beyond the limited methodology of traditional historiographies of death to probe the depths of a people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes the very terms of their social compact. This work effects a novel turn in the classical historiography of death a turn that can be characterized by a move from social and cultural history to political history. The move toward the politics of death gives readers a unique insight into the peculiar story of death in the Americas.
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Rutgers University Press Dying Green: A Journey through End-of-Life
Book SynopsisThe slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? In Dying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health care. Through a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, she shows how decisions made at a patient’s bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry. Likewise, Dying Green offers insights on the many opportunities that exist for reducing the ecological impacts of medical practices in general, while also enhancing care for the dying in particular. By envisioning a more sustainable approach to care, this book offers a way forward that is better for both patients and the planet.Trade Review“This remarkable book covers a lot of ground, and does it with rigor, compassion, and humanity. Dying Green will get you to think not just about the greening of health care, but also about how you want to handle the eventual end of your own life–you will want to read this book.”— Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “Dying Green has the potential to break through the superficial “greening of hospitals” mindset and to address deeper levels of the relationship between health and sustainability. Vatovec has a strong understanding of sustainability and resources.” — Tee L. Guidotti, author of Health and Sustainability: An IntroductionTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Focal Point: End-of-Life Medical Care 2 Medical Waste 3 Medical Supplies 4 Pharmaceuticals 5 Patients 6 Conclusions and Practical Implications Acknowledgments Appendix A A Note on Methods Appendix B A Note on Theory Appendix C Institutional Data on Materials Used at Hopewell Hospital and Baluster Hospice Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Dying Green: A Journey through End-of-Life
Book SynopsisThe slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? In Dying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health care. Through a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, she shows how decisions made at a patient’s bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry. Likewise, Dying Green offers insights on the many opportunities that exist for reducing the ecological impacts of medical practices in general, while also enhancing care for the dying in particular. By envisioning a more sustainable approach to care, this book offers a way forward that is better for both patients and the planet.Trade Review“This remarkable book covers a lot of ground, and does it with rigor, compassion, and humanity. Dying Green will get you to think not just about the greening of health care, but also about how you want to handle the eventual end of your own life–you will want to read this book.” -- Bill McKibben * author of The End of Nature *“Dying Green has the potential to break through the superficial “greening of hospitals” mindset and to address deeper levels of the relationship between health and sustainability. Vatovec has a strong understanding of sustainability and resources.” -- Tee L. Guidotti * author of Health and Sustainability: An Introduction *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Focal Point: End-of-Life Medical Care 2 Medical Waste 3 Medical Supplies 4 Pharmaceuticals 5 Patients 6 Conclusions and Practical Implications Acknowledgments Appendix A A Note on Methods Appendix B A Note on Theory Appendix C Institutional Data on Materials Used at Hopewell Hospital and Baluster Hospice Notes References Index
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Approaches to Death and Dying – Bioethical and
Book SynopsisThe book Approaches to Death and Dying: Bioethical and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Marta Szabat and Jan Piasecki, is part of a still too narrow catalogue of works devoted to end-of-life themes. The volume consists of eleven articles arranged in four parts corresponding to a broad range of issues: law, ethics, philosophy, and cultural studies. The arrangement of the book is thus constructed around various perspectives upon which any reflection on death and dying must be based. This is perhaps indicative of how difficult it is to adopt an unambiguous attitude towards death–modernity, which introduces a multitude of possible choices and decisions regarding our own bodies, has enhanced individualism but at the same time done away with the order provided by old customs, cultural arrangements, strategies towards the inevitable and the power exerted by that order.
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Bokforlaget Stolpe On Death Perspectives on endings and eternities
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HardPress Publishing Southwold
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Lectio Ediciones La Sombra del Ombú
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sobre el duelo / About Mourning
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Editorial Kairos Estar Con Los Que Mueren: Cultivar La Compasión Y
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment
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Taylor & Francis Women Monstrosity and Horror Film
Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that relishes the complexities that arise when boundaries of taste, of bodies, of reason are blurred and dismantled. It is also a site of expression and exploration that leverages the narrative and aesthetic horrors of the reproductive, the maternal and the sexual to expose the underpinnings of the social, political and philosophical othering of women. This book offers an in-depth analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of gynaehorror': films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror, from reproductive and sexual organs, to virginity, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and finally to menopause. Some of the themes explored include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female (hetero)sexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata<
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Singing Death
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Taylor & Francis Ltd City Sextons Tales from Municipal Leaders Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death Talk Conversations with Children and Families The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Criminal Bodies in the West Iconography and Life after Death
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Grief Bereavement and Meaning Making in Older People
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Theory on Death and Dying
Book SynopsisPolitical Theory on Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, encyclopedic review that compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying.Adopting an easy-to-follow chronological and multi-disciplinary approach on 45 canonical figures and thinkers, leading scholars from a diverse range of fields, including political science, philosophy, and English, discuss each thinker's ethical and philosophical accounts on mortality and death. Each chapter focuses on a single established figure in political philosophy, as well as religious and literary thinkers, covering classical to contemporary thought on death. Through this approach, the chapters are designed to stand alone, allowing the reader to study every entry in isolation and with greater depth, as well as trace how thinkers are influenced by their predecessors.A key contribution to the field, Political Theory on Death and DyingTrade Review"Through its chronological approach, and dedication of each chapter to a different classical text or philosopher, this multi-author volume provides a very useful way of getting at the topic of death in the history of philosophy."Adam Buben, Leiden University"An extraordinary collection—45 essays on the thought of thinkers from Homer to MacIntyre on death and dying, broadly understood to include aging and after-death possibilities. Always informative—often insightful—frequently provocative."Michael Zuckert, Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame"In the year of COVID-19 comes this timely new book about one of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: death and dying. The Political Theory on Death and Dying is a wonderful compendium of how 45 of the greatest philosophers from Homer to MacIntyre have tackled the problem of death, and, more importantly, its antipode: life! This book will challenge readers to reconsider how they live their lives in the face of the final horizon. Young or old, this is a must-read book. I highly recommend it!"C. Bradley Thompson, Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Professor of Political Science, Clemson University"By thoughtfully engaging writings on death from multiple cultures, historical epochs, and thinkers in diverse religious and political traditions, this collection will be a definitive resource for anyone interested in the breadth of human reflection on this universal topic."Brian Howell, Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Memory and Mortality in Homer’s Odyssey 2. Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring 3. "Every Form of Death": Thucydides on Death’s Political Presence 4. Mortality, Recollection, and Human Dignity in Plato 5. Good Old Age: Aristotle and the "Virtues" of Aging 6. The Buddha, Death, and Taxes 7. Flourishing toward Dissolution: Epicurus on the Resilience of Tranquility 8. The Political Philosophy of Death in Laozi 9. The Bhagavad Gītā and Paradox of Death 10. Life and Death as a Political Act: Cicero and the Stoics 11. Prenatal and Posthumous Nonexistence: Lucretius on the Harmlessness of Death 12. The Road to Freedom: Seneca on Fear, Reason, and Death 13. Continuity Without Corruption: The Political Theology of Death in St. Augustine 14. Jihād for the City: How Alfarabi Discourages, and Encourages, Death in Battle 15. Techniques for the Social Self: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Remembrance of Death 16. Death and Dying, Mortality and Immortality in Moses Maimonides 17. The Young, the Old, and the Immortal: Machiavelli on Political Health and Aging 18. Death in Montaigne’s Essays 19. When "Every Third Thought Shall Be My Grave": Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest 20. Francis Bacon on "the Dolours of Death" 21. Descartes On How We Should Relate to Death 22. "The Wages of Sin": Morality and Mortality in John Milton’s Paradise Lost 23. A Liberation From Fear: Benedict de Spinoza on Religion, Philosophy, and Mortality 24. Thomas Hobbes on the Uses and Disadvantages of Death for Political Life 25. The Role of Death and Eternity in Locke’s Political Philosophy 26. Montesquieu on Death, Liberty, and Law 27. Can Philosophy Console Us?: Hume’s Understanding of Mortality 28. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Fear of Death and the Happiness of Life 29. Adam Smith and Dying Peacefully 30. Nature, Second Nature, and Supernature: Death and Consolation in the Thought of Edmund Burke 31. Kant on Death and the Purpose of Human Life 32. Overcoming the Mortal Diseases and Short Lives of Republican Governments: Publius and Political Immortality 33. Hegel on Death and the Spirit 34. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Love 35. Immortality and Angst in Tocqueville’s America 36. "What is Odious in Death Is not Death Itself, but the Act of Dying": John Stuart Mill on the Political Philosophy of Death and Dying 37. Death and Dynamism in Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy 38. Facing Death Fearlessly, So Others Can Live Without Fear: Gandhi’s Philosophy as Art of Dying 39. "An Earthly Immortality": Arendt on Mortality, Politics, and Political Death 40. Death in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time 41. Make Live and Let Die: Michel Foucault, Biopower, and the Art of Dying Well 42. Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Death and Aging 43. Metamorphoses: Gilles Deleuze on Living and Death 44. Jacques Derrida on Death, the Death Penalty, and Mourning 45. Alasdair MacIntyre and the Twilight of the Virtues
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Theory on Death and Dying
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria
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Taylor & Francis Death Immortality and Eternal Life
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria
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Taylor & Francis Death Immortality and Eternal Life
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society
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Taylor & Francis The Restorative Nature of Ongoing Connections with the Deceased
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Restorative Nature of Ongoing Connections with the Deceased
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Suicide Social Dramas
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying
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Taylor & Francis Prisoner Voices from Death Row
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Taylor & Francis Saving the Souls of Medieval London Perpetual Chantries at St Pauls Cathedral c12001548
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AI for Death and Dying
Book SynopsisWhat is artificial intelligence (AI)? How does AI affect death matters and the digital beyond? How are death and dying handled in our digital age?AI for Dying and Death covers a broad range of literature, research and challenges around this topic. It explores ethical memorisation, digital legacies and bereavement, post death avatars and AI and the digital beyond. It also analyzes religious perspectives on AI for death and dying, and planning for death in a digital age. Table of ContentsChapter 1 What is Artificial Intelligence?Chapter 2 Death and Dying in the Digital AgeChapter 3 Ethical MemorialisationChapter 4 Digital Legacy ManagementChapter 5 Religious PerspectivesChapter 6 Digital BereavementChapter 7 Digital Afterlife, Digital Immortal Creation and Artificial IntelligenceChapter 8 Artificial Intelligence and the Digital BeyondReferences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AI for Death and Dying
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Taylor & Francis Narrating Death
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and Funeral Practices in Russia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and Events
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Taylor & Francis Pet Loss Grief and Therapeutic Interventions
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Taylor & Francis Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
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Taylor & Francis Death Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity Religion in the First Christian Centuries
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Taylor & Francis Death Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity Religion in the First Christian Centuries
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond the Body Death and Social Identity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mourning Diana
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Taylor & Francis The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism
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Taylor & Francis Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and the Ancestors A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa Routledge Library Editions Anthropology Ethnography
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Taylor & Francis The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial
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