Life Sentences : : The Modern Ordering of Mortality / / Zohreh Bayatrizi.
Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Modern Ordering of Mortality
- 1. Thou Shalt Not Die Violently: Death and the Modern Problematic of Order
- 2. Thou Shalt Not Die Prematurely: The Political Economy of Death
- 3. Thou Shalt Not Kill Thyself: The De-moralization of Suicide
- 4. Thou Shalt Not Die an Undignified Death: The Discursive Constitution of Death with Dignity
- Conclusion: Thou Shalt Die an Orderly Death
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index