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A Social History of Dying

By Allan Kellehear

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0521694299, 9780521694292
Open Library ID
OL22746463M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1922821 bytes)
Pages
310\309
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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 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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