Death is a Social Disease
Title | Death is a Social Disease PDF eBook |
Author | William Coleman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN |
Death Is a Social Disease
Title | Death Is a Social Disease PDF eBook |
Author | William L. Coleman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 345 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780608099002 |
Malady and Mortality
Title | Malady and Mortality PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Thomas |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2016-06-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1443896551 |
This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics. It encourages a re-examination of cultural taboos and visual and literary practices that engage with illness and death. Focusing upon a wide range of creative and critical engagements, this book makes a significant contribution to the medical humanities via its exploration of medical practice, literature and film, digital media studies, graphic design, and both contemporary and historical attitudes towards illness, death (including infant mortality), mourning and bereavement. For some, the experience of illness provokes feelings of exile, crisis or social critique, whilst for others it instigates utopian discourses predicated upon personal reflection, communication or connectivity, wherein the “self” is redefined beyond the parameters and constraints of the “body”.
A Social History of Dying
Title | A Social History of Dying PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Kellehear |
Publisher | |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 9781139132749 |
A Social History of Dying examines the major challenges we will face for our eventual deaths.
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Title | Remembering and Disremembering the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Floris Tomasini |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137538287 |
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.
Social Disease
Title | Social Disease PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Rudnick |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1997-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312156596 |
In this comic novel by one of America's funniest writers, "the travails of (the) protagonist, a trust-funded trendoid named Guy, his ditzy clubland bride Venice, and their transvestite housekeeper, Licky Barnes, are very perky indeed. . . . "Social Disease" . . . is really about the three major issues of our time: sex, hair, and the telephone" (Paul Rudnick, "New York Magazine").
Social Class, Disease and Death
Title | Social Class, Disease and Death PDF eBook |
Author | Jeddi Hasan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789514423536 |