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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456842703321

Titolo

Spectacular death [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability / / edited by Tristanne Connolly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Intellect, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16292-X

9786613162922

1-84150-542-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Culture, disease, and well-being, , 2042-177X

Altri autori (Persone)

ConnollyTristanne

Disciplina

128/.5

Soggetti

Death in art

Death - Symbolic aspects

Death in popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910714910203321

Autore

Shekelle Paul G

Titolo

Cost-effectiveness of leg bypass versus endovascular therapy for critical limb ischemia : a systematic review / / Paul G Shekelle, Melinda Maggard Gibbons, Chris P Childers, Margherita Lamaina, and Charles Liu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research & Development Service, , 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 63 pages)

Collana

Evidence systhesis program

Disciplina

617.413059

Soggetti

Blood-vessels - Endoscopic surgery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 2019."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.