Spectacular death : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability / edited by Tristanne Connolly.
Material type: TextSeries: Culture, disease, and well-beingPublication details: Bristol : Intellect, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781841505428
- 1841505420
- 1841503223
- 9781841503226
- 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
- 610.1 22
- N8217.D5 S64 2011eb
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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.
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