Maintenance of Life Preventing Social Death Through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care-Lessons from the Netherlands

Name: Maintenance of Life Preventing Social Death Through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care-Lessons from the Netherlands
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ISBN: 9781594605185

ISBN-10: 1594605181

ISBN-13: 9781594605185

Edition: 2009

Authors: Frances Norwood

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The landscape of death and dying has changed. Today, death most often does not happen in an instant, it is more typically a long process of life mixed in with decline and social losses that eventually and sometimes many years after an initial onset of terminal or serious illness culminates in some combination of social and biological death. British sociologist Clive Seale (1998) suggests that changes in death and dying have been accompanied by changing tactics for maintaining social life. He suggests two strategies that that have developed in response to modern death including the development of a kind of therapeutic discourse which is used to transform social losses that occur at the end…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English