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- 题名/责任者:
- Death in a global age / Ruth McManus.
- 出版发行项:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- ISBN:
- 9780230224513 (hardback)
- ISBN:
- 0230224512 (hardback)
- ISBN:
- 9780230224520 (paperback)
- ISBN:
- 0230224520 (paperback)
- 载体形态项:
- xii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- 个人责任者:
- McManus, Ruth.
- 论题主题:
- Death-Social aspects.
- 论题主题:
- Grief.
- 论题主题:
- Terminal care.
- 中图法分类号:
- C913.9
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
- 内容附注:
- Introduction: Death is Integral to Life -- Perspectives and Theories on Death and Dying -- The Social Organisation of Dying and Death: A New Paradigm Emerges -- Patterns in Life and Death: Shifting Demographic Trends Re-Shape Life Expectancies -- The Death Industries: Bespoke My Death -- Funerary Rites: A Decent Send-Off -- Grief -- Mass Death: Global Imaginaries -- Religion: The De-Secularisation of Spiritual Life and Death? -- Representations Of Mortality: Watching Real Death Is Good? -- Conclusion: Death in a Global Age.
- 摘要附注:
- "Attitudes towards dying are informed by our social lives. This book explores death across different cultures, examining areas including grief and religion, life expectancy and representation. Introducing students to key debates in the field, this book shows how approaches to death are being radically reshaped in an increasingly globalized world."--Publisher's website.
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