Author: | Donald Joralemon | ISBN: | 9781315424354 |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | June 16, 2016 |
Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
Author: | Donald Joralemon |
ISBN: | 9781315424354 |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Publication: | June 16, 2016 |
Imprint: | Routledge |
Language: | English |
Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned “no.” In his view, Americans are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book:
Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned “no.” In his view, Americans are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book: