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

• Pubblicazione: Bristol, : Intellect, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.5
• Soggetto topico: Death in art; Death - Symbolic aspects; Death in popular culture
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ConnollyTristanne
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Spectacular death
• ISBN: 1-283-16292-X; 9786613162922; 1-84150-542-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456842703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture, disease, and well-being.