Spectacular death : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability /
Spectacular death : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability /
edited by Tristanne Connolly.
- Bristol : Intellect, 2011.
- 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations
- Culture, disease, and well-being, 2042-177X .
- Culture, disease, and well-being. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Aestheticizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover.
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.
9781841505428 (electronic bk.) 1841505420 (electronic bk.) 1841503223 9781841503226
9781841503226
00065408
017813701 Uk
Death in art.
Death--Symbolic aspects.
Death in popular culture.
Mort dans l'art.
Mort--Aspect symbolique.
Mort dans la culture populaire.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Reference.
MEDICAL--Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL--Atlases.
MEDICAL--Essays.
MEDICAL--Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL--Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL--Osteopathy.
Death in art.
Death in popular culture.
Death--Symbolic aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
N8217.D5 / S64 2011eb
610.1
Includes bibliographical references.
Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Aestheticizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover.
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.
9781841505428 (electronic bk.) 1841505420 (electronic bk.) 1841503223 9781841503226
9781841503226
00065408
017813701 Uk
Death in art.
Death--Symbolic aspects.
Death in popular culture.
Mort dans l'art.
Mort--Aspect symbolique.
Mort dans la culture populaire.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Reference.
MEDICAL--Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL--Atlases.
MEDICAL--Essays.
MEDICAL--Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL--Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL--Osteopathy.
Death in art.
Death in popular culture.
Death--Symbolic aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
N8217.D5 / S64 2011eb
610.1