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200 00$aSpectacular death $einterdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability /$fedited by Tristanne Connolly
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBristol $cIntellect$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (316 p.)
225 1 $aCulture, disease, and well-being,$x2042-177X
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-84150-322-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aFront 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
330   $aAn interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to question self-reflexively how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medi
410  0$aCulture, disease, and well-being.
606   $aDeath in art
606   $aDeath$xSymbolic aspects
606   $aDeath in popular culture
615  0$aDeath in art.
615  0$aDeath$xSymbolic aspects.
615  0$aDeath in popular culture.
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