The Spirit Ambulance

Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

Scott Stonington (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34389-4 (ISBN)

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The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a “debt of life” to their elders through intensive medical care, followed by a medically assisted rush from the hospital to home to ensure a spiritually advantageous last breath. The result is a powerful exploration of the nature of death and the complexities arising from the globalization of biomedical expertise and ethics around the world.

Scott Stonington, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Acknowledgments

Jandi: The Spirit Ambulance
Arirat: Facing the Karma Master
Introduction: Choreographing the End of Life
1. Paying the Debt of Life
2. The Spirit Ambulance Buddhadasa: Problematizing Death 3. The New End of Life
4. Karma Masters

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	California Series in Public Anthropology ; 49
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-34389-1 / 0520343891
ISBN-13	978-0-520-34389-4 / 9780520343894
Zustand	Neuware