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Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America

Donald Joralemon

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America. To get started finding Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America. To get started finding Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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