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A social history of dying / Allan Kellehear.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: x, 297 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521694292
  • 0521694299 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.9 KEL
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Contents:
The stone age -- The dawn of mortal awareness -- Otherworld journeys: death as dying -- The first challenge: anticipating death -- The pastoral age -- The emergence of sedentism -- The birth of the good death -- The second challenge: preparing for death -- The age of the city -- The rise and spread of cities -- The birth of the well-managed death -- The third challenge: taming death -- The cosmopolitan age -- The exponential rise of modernity -- The birth of the shameful death -- The final challenge: timing death.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-280) and index.

The stone age -- The dawn of mortal awareness -- Otherworld journeys: death as dying -- The first challenge: anticipating death -- The pastoral age -- The emergence of sedentism -- The birth of the good death -- The second challenge: preparing for death -- The age of the city -- The rise and spread of cities -- The birth of the well-managed death -- The third challenge: taming death -- The cosmopolitan age -- The exponential rise of modernity -- The birth of the shameful death -- The final challenge: timing death.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part I The Stone Age
  • 1 The Dawn of Mortal Awareness (p. 11)
  • 2 Otherworld Journeys: Death as Dying (p. 28)
  • 3 The First Challenge: Anticipating Death (p. 47)
  • Part II The Pastoral Age
  • 4 The Emergence of Sedentism (p. 69)
  • 5 The Birth of the Good Death (p. 87)
  • 6 The Second Challenge: Preparing for Death (p. 105)
  • Part III The Age of the City
  • 7 The Rise and Spread of Cities (p. 125)
  • 8 The Birth of the Well-Managed Death (p. 147)
  • 9 The Third Challenge: Taming Death (p. 169)
  • Part IV The Cosmopolitan Age
  • 10 The Exponential Rise of Modernity (p. 191)
  • 11 The Birth of the Shameful Death (p. 213)
  • 12 The Final Challenge: Timing Death (p. 234)
  • Conclusion (p. 251)
  • Bibliography (p. 257)
  • Index (p. 281)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Allan Kellehear is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath, UK

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