02796nam 2200625 a 450 991045684270332120200520144314.01-283-16292-X97866131629221-84150-542-0(CKB)2550000000041298(EBL)731489(OCoLC)741492859(SSID)ssj0000530135(PQKBManifestationID)12231820(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000530135(PQKBWorkID)10561247(PQKB)11235389(MiAaPQ)EBC731489(Au-PeEL)EBL731489(CaPaEBR)ebr10483607(CaONFJC)MIL316292(EXLCZ)99255000000004129820110730d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSpectacular death[electronic resource] interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability /edited by Tristanne ConnollyBristol Intellect20111 online resource (316 p.)Culture, disease, and well-being,2042-177XDescription based upon print version of record.1-84150-322-3 Includes bibliographical references.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 CoverAn 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 mediCulture, disease, and well-being.Death in artDeathSymbolic aspectsDeath in popular cultureElectronic books.Death in art.DeathSymbolic aspects.Death in popular culture.128/.5Connolly Tristanne886282MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456842703321Spectacular death1978943UNINA