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Beyond price : essays on birth and death / / J. David Velleman
| Beyond price : essays on birth and death / / J. David Velleman |
| Autore | Velleman J. David |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Open Book Publishers, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 174.2 |
| Soggetto topico | Bioethics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
medical ethics
bioethics donor conception assisted suicide death and dying euthanasia reproductive technology Immanuel Kant Parent |
| ISBN |
1-78374-170-8
2-8218-7633-5 1-78374-169-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Against the Right to Die -- 3. A Right of Self-Termination? -- 4. Beyond Price -- 5. Family History -- 6. Persons in Prospect -- I. The Identity Problem -- II. The Gift of Life -- III. Love and Nonexistence -- 7. Well-Being and Time -- 8. So It Goes -- 9. Dying -- 10. --The Rights to a Life -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910156256003321 |
Velleman J. David
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| Open Book Publishers, 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Family Communication at the End of Life / Maureen Keeley
| Family Communication at the End of Life / Maureen Keeley |
| Autore | Keeley Maureen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (X, 156 p.) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
end of life
communication family death and dying palliative care healthcare |
| ISBN |
9783038425182
3038425184 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910220015403321 |
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Keeley Maureen
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| Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The final leap [[electronic resource] ] : suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge / / John Bateson
| The final leap [[electronic resource] ] : suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge / / John Bateson |
| Autore | Bateson John <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.2809794/61 |
| Soggetto topico |
Suicide victims - California - San Francisco
Suicide - California - San Francisco |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american bridges
american mysteries american tragedy bridges and suicide california history california mysteries california travel guide crime and mystery crisis prevention death and dying famous bridges human stories mental health and suicide mental health in america mental health nonfiction pacific us travel psychology and mental health psychology and sociology psychology of suicide san francisco history suicide and mental illness suicide counseling suicide prevention tragic stories |
| ISBN |
1-280-10801-0
9786613520630 0-520-95140-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Beauty And Death -- 2. Fatal Decisions -- 3. Endless Ripple -- 4. Opening Up -- 5. Surviving The Fall -- 6. In Lieu Of A Net -- 7. Guardians Of An Icon -- 8. The Barrier Debate -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779094803321 |
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Bateson John <1951->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors
| Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (891 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history - 21st century
Life Death |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
contemporary health care cross cultural studies death and dying death studies disability studies global health global maternal death health science hiv aids infant mortality international adoption life and death living and dying maternal mortality medical anthropology mental health miscarriage race and healthcare religious healing reproductive rights social history sociology stem cell technology tb tuberculosis transnational adoption |
| ISBN | 0-520-96106-4 |
| Classificazione | LC 56000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Living and Dying in the Contemporary World -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal -- 13. The Juridical Hospital -- 14. The Right of Recovery -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality -- 38. Chemonotes -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other -- 40. Life beside Itself -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797753303321 |
| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors
| Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (891 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history - 21st century
Life Death |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
contemporary health care cross cultural studies death and dying death studies disability studies global health global maternal death health science hiv aids infant mortality international adoption life and death living and dying maternal mortality medical anthropology mental health miscarriage race and healthcare religious healing reproductive rights social history sociology stem cell technology tb tuberculosis transnational adoption |
| ISBN | 0-520-96106-4 |
| Classificazione | LC 56000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Living and Dying in the Contemporary World -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal -- 13. The Juridical Hospital -- 14. The Right of Recovery -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality -- 38. Chemonotes -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other -- 40. Life beside Itself -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808604803321 |
| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / / Robert Desjarilais
| Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / / Robert Desjarilais |
| Autore | Desjarlais Robert R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) |
| Disciplina |
294.3/923/09225496
B |
| Collana | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity |
| Soggetto topico |
Lamas - Nepal
Buddhists - Nepal Death - Religious aspects - Buddhism Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) - Religion |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Ethnography |
| Soggetto non controllato |
biographical profiles
biographical buddhist priests death and dying death experience ethnographers ethnographic studies gerontology human struggles interviews life and death life histories life journey life stories nepal nonfiction biography physical senses religious figures sensory experiences sociology spiritual subjective experience tibetan buddhists touching vision yolmo buddhists yolmo elders yolmo valley |
| ISBN |
1-59734-893-7
9786612762796 1-282-76279-6 0-520-93674-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration -- Kurāgraphy -- Hardship, Comfort -- Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision -- Startled into Alertness -- A Theater of Voices -- "I've Gotten Old" -- Essays on Dying -- "Dying Is This" -- The Painful Between -- Desperation -- The Time of Dying -- Death Envisioned -- To Phungboche, by Force -- Staying Still -- Mirror of Deeds -- Here and There -- "So: Ragged Woman" -- Echoes of a Life -- A Son's Death -- The End of the Body -- Last Words -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782924503321 |
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Desjarlais Robert R
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| Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality / / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen
| Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality / / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Death - Social aspects
Death - Religious aspects Funeral rites and ceremonies Liminality |
| Soggetto non controllato |
ancestors
anthropology case studies cemeteries change coming of age creativity death and dying death destiny diplomacy evolution experiments explore death funeral good and evil hardship humanity interdisciplinary perspective life and death life changes life lessons liminality political implications psychology realistic religious life revolutionaries social relationships social sciences social theoretical tragedy transition |
| ISBN | 1-78238-610-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Rituals; The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains; Shape of Mourning among the Sora; Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food; Liminality of ""Living Martyrdom""; Part II. Concepts; Disappearance and Liminality; Three Dimensions of Liminality; Death, Ritual, and Effervescence; Part III. Imageries; Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul?; Between Death and Judgment; Body and Soul in Archaic Greece; Death, Memory, and Liminality; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797912403321 |
| New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality / / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen
| Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality / / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Death - Social aspects
Death - Religious aspects Funeral rites and ceremonies Liminality |
| Soggetto non controllato |
ancestors
anthropology case studies cemeteries change coming of age creativity death and dying death destiny diplomacy evolution experiments explore death funeral good and evil hardship humanity interdisciplinary perspective life and death life changes life lessons liminality political implications psychology realistic religious life revolutionaries social relationships social sciences social theoretical tragedy transition |
| ISBN | 1-78238-610-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Rituals; The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains; Shape of Mourning among the Sora; Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food; Liminality of ""Living Martyrdom""; Part II. Concepts; Disappearance and Liminality; Three Dimensions of Liminality; Death, Ritual, and Effervescence; Part III. Imageries; Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul?; Between Death and Judgment; Body and Soul in Archaic Greece; Death, Memory, and Liminality; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818179503321 |
| New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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