Mortal Dilemmas

The Troubled Landscape of Death in America

Donald Joralemon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2016
Left Coast Press Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62958-392-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Donald Joralemon earned his doctorate in cultural anthropology from UCLA and has taught at Smith College since 1983. His first book, on Peruvian shamanism, led to an appearance on the National Geographic television channel's program "Taboo" (on "Altered States"). For the last ten years he has done research on the developed world’s healing technologies, especially organ transplantation, and published articles in various anthropology and medical ethics journals. He has been interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Canadian Medical Journal and was invited to submit an editorial to Proto, the journal for the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also the author of the widely used textbook Exploring Medical Anthropology, now in its third edition.

1 A Culturally Naked Death
2 Deciding to Die
3 Liminal People, Hard Decisions
4 Dead?

Interlude: Reflections on Dying Dilemmas

5 Grief: Is It Complicated
6 Inconvenient Bodies
7 Remember
8 Dying and Death in America: The Prognosis

Erscheinungsdatum	12.02.2016
Verlagsort	Walnut Creek
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-62958-392-8 / 1629583928
ISBN-13	978-1-62958-392-1 / 9781629583921
Zustand	Neuware