Spectacular death : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability / edited by Tristanne Connolly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connolly, Tristanne.

Series:

Culture, disease, and well-being.

Culture, disease, and well-being, 2042-177X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in art.

Death--Symbolic aspects.

Death.

Death in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Anesthetizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-16292-X

9786613162922

1-84150-542-0

OCLC:

741492859