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UNINA9910456842703321 |
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Titolo |
Spectacular death [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability / / edited by Tristanne Connolly |
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Bristol, : Intellect, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-16292-X |
9786613162922 |
1-84150-542-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Collana |
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Culture, disease, and well-being, , 2042-177X |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Death in art |
Death - Symbolic aspects |
Death in popular culture |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Anesthetizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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