Death, dying, culture : an interdisciplinary interrogation / edited by Lloyd Steffen, Nate Hinerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steffen, Lloyd H., 1951- editor.

Hinerman, Nate, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

This inter- and multi-disciplinary volume examines how culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are remembered. Over the past three decades, scholarship in thanatology has increased dramatically. This text localizes a broad array of perspectives that research, analyze, and interpret the many interrelations and interactions that exist between death and culture. Culture not only presents and portrays ideas about ‘a good death’ and norms that seek to achieve it, but culture also operates as both a vehicle and medium through which meaning about death is communicated and understood. Sadly, too, culture sometimes facilitates death through violence.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Lloyd Steffen and Nate Hinerman

Habits of the Heart in End of Life Care / Nate Hinerman

The Dying: Individual Need or Professional Prerogative? / David MacKintosh

So Far and So Close: The Challenge of Death / Abílio Oliveira and Rute Rodrigues

Significance of Mental and Spiritual Support for Cancer Patients / Suvi Saarelainen

Lessons About Dying and Death from Disasters / John F. Freie

Death through the Eyes of Innocence: Perceptions of Death in Childhood / Alejandra Freitas , Abílio Oliveira and Rute Rodrigues

How Mortality Salience Affects Religiosity: Considering Life History Theory, Terror Management Theory and IQ / Sarah Heany

Fatum and Fragility: Mario Perniola’s Philosophy of Death / Stein A. Hevrøy

Satire’s Mirror: Exposing Death Denial in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels / Larissa Fitzpatrick

On Kevorkian, Vivisection and Beneficent Execution / Lloyd Steffen

Determining Death: Perspectives from World Religions / Susan M. Setta

Peter Brueghel’s Triumph of Death / Jean-Louis Claret

Exploring Funeral Fashions and Music pro defunctis in the Southern Netherlands (1600-1799) / Stefanie Beghein

Honour(ing) The Departed: How Death Facilitates Honour in American Culture / Gabrielle Kristjanson

Resisting Intimations of Immortality: Aubrey de Grey’s Science and Saramago’s Novel / Susan M. Behuniak

Death and the Maiden: Bataille, Blanchot and the Deathly Female Figure / Leslie Anne Boldt

The Death of the Author’s Mother: Postmodern Uncertainties in Contemporary Memoir / Linda K. Karell

Showing Mourning in Slow Motion / Inga Schaub

Near-Death Experiences throughout the History of Art and Science: Challenges for the XXI century / Ana León

The Film Musical as Cultural Vehicle for Dealing with Death and Dying / Christina Lovey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-173-8

OCLC:

1096221244

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881730 DOI