| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Culture, disease, and well-being,
2042-177X
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Culture, disease, and well-being.
2042-177X
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Aestheticizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to question self-reflexively how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Death in art.
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Death in art. |
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Death -- Symbolic aspects.
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Death -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Death in popular culture.
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Death in popular culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Connolly, Tristanne.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Connolly, Tristanne. Spectacular Death : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability. Bristol : Intellect, ©2011 9781841503226 |
| ISBN |
9781841505428 (electronic book) |
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1841505420 (electronic book) |
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1841503223 |
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9781841503226 |
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1841503223 |
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9781841503226 |
| Standard No. |
9781841503226 |
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