Unequal before death / edited by Christina Staudt and Marcelline Block.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (lii, 248 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - 144383856X
- 9781443838566
- 1299659101
- 9781299659100
- Papers from a conference held March 2010, Columbia University
- Death -- Social aspects -- Congresses
- Mortality -- Congresses
- Terminally ill -- Congresses
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
- Equality -- Congresses
- Mort -- Aspect social -- Congrès
- Mortalité -- Congrès
- Malades en phase terminale -- Congrès
- Mort -- Aspect religieux -- Congrès
- Sociology: death & dying
- Humanities
- Interdisciplinary studies
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying
- Death -- Religious aspects
- Death -- Social aspects
- Equality
- Mortality
- Terminally ill
- 306.9 23
- HQ1073 .U547 2012
- online - EBSCO
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Death has been deemed the "great equalizer," but each journey towards our shared, ultimate fate is unique. The length of our lives, the quality of our last days, how our deaths are perceived by others, and the handling of our remains are governed by nature and many socio-cultural factors. Unequal Before Death is an edited collection that addresses inequalities surrounding death from the perspectives of scholars in a wide range of humanistic and social science disciplines, including art histor ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX