Death in a Global Age

Death in a Global Age
Author: Ruth McManus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137292601


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Attitudes towards death are shaped by our social worlds. This book explores how beliefs, practices and representations of dying and death continue to evolve and adapt in response to changing global societies. Introducing students to debates around grief, religion and life expectancy, this is a clear guide to a complex field for all sociologists.


Death in a Global Age
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Ruth McManus
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-16 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Attitudes towards death are shaped by our social worlds. This book explores how beliefs, practices and representations of dying and death continue to evolve and
The Mourning News
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Tal Morse
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

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The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articu
Biosecurity in the Global Age
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: David Fidler
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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"The renewed threat of biological weapons highlights the importance of crafting policy responses informed by the rule of law. This book explores patterns in rec
Death in the Greek World
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Maria Serena Mirto
Categories: Death in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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Examines ancient Greek conceptions of death and the afterlife In our contemporary Western society, death has become taboo. Despite its inevitability, we focus o
A Commonsense Book of Death
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Edwin S. Shneidman
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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A distinguished lifelong thanatologist--expert on death--reviews his life, a previous prize-winning book of thirty five years ago, and his own impending death i