Mapping the perimeter of death and dying / edited by Carol McAllum, Madeline Gorman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McAllum, Carol, editor.

Gorman, Madeline, editor.

Series:

Inter-Disciplinary Press Sociology, Politics and Education Special E-book Collection, 2009-2016, ISBN: 9789004400979

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

Insomuch that death is both universal as well as subject to varied registers of meaning, death as a field of research occupies a necessarily inter-disciplinary position. This volume gathers multiple perspectives on death and dying composed by a selection of papers that were presented at the 9th Global Conference on Making Sense of: Dying and Death, held in Salzburg, Austria in November, 2012. Countering notions of death as mere negation, these chapters map out regions of sense-making along the perimeters of life. It approaches death and dying from an array of scholarly, theoretical, and practical disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, theology, political science, media studies, education, art studies, anthropology, sociology, and health care.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Carol McAllum and Madeline Gorman

Religion, Metaphysics, Reality and The Problem of Death in Modern Literature and Philosophy / Danuta Kisiała

Controlling Death: Philosophical Thanatology Meets Cultural Expectations / Sami Pihlström

Exquisite Corpses: The Depreciation of Female Death in Artistic Representation / Neil Holmstrom

Corporate Culture, Policy and Caring in American Hospices: A Viewpoint / Wayne Leaver

Defining Death: The Challenge Posed by Near-Death Experiences / Natasha Tassell-Matamua

The Roles of Social Actors in Accounts of Near-Death Experiences: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of France and the United States / Peter Corrigan

Virtual Immortality: Death, the Digital Screen and Facebook / Madeline Gorman

Death and Human Dignity in the Cinema of Liliana Cavani / Daniela Chana

Vampires and the Failure of the Nordic Welfare State / Outi Hakola

Graveyards on Paper: The Visual Form of Death Notices in the Estonian Press, 1865-2012 / Roosmarii Kurvits

Montana’s Courting of Physician Aid in Dying: McCarter’s Trumpet / Arthur G. Svenson

On Futility and a Supposed Right to Kill from Benevolent Motives: Compassion and Justice at the End of Life / Lloyd Steffen

Burial Lamenting in a 21st Century Vepsian Village: The Collective and the Individual / Madis Arukask

In Memory of Children Who Die before Being Known: A Ritual Field in a Formative Phase / Ellen Kristvik

The End: Before and after the Metaphor in the Contemporary Romanian Mass Media / Daniela Maci

Shared Collective Emotions? The Funeral of Robert Enke as a Public Event / Nils Meise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-242-4

OCLC:

1096222380

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882423 DOI