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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Joralemon, Donald
Titre(s) : Mortal dilemmas [Texte imprimé] : the troubled landscape of death in America / Donald Joralemon
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (149 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144) and index
"Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars
claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and
the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned "no." In his view, Americans
are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying
that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book -is written
in the first-person for a broad audience by a senior anthropologist, making it an
authoritative yet accessible textbook for courses on death and dying and American
culture; -includes contemporary debates about highly visible cases, the definition
of death, the status of human remains, aging, and the medicalization of grief; -demonstrates
persuasively that arguments over death and dying are in fact arguments about what
it means to be human in modern America"
Sujet(s) : Mort -- Société -- États-Unis
Deuil -- Société -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781629583921. - ISBN 1629583928. - ISBN 9781629583938. - ISBN 1629583936. -
ISBN 9781629583945 (erroné). - ISBN 9781629583952 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45099626j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45099626
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