Death, dying, culture : : an interdisciplinary interrogation / / edited by Lloyd Steffen, Nate Hinerman.

• TeilnehmendeR: Steffen, Lloyd H., 1951-; Hinerman, Nate,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Habits of the Heart in End of Life Care /; The Dying: Individual Need or Professional Prerogative? /; So Far and So Close: The Challenge of Death /; Significance of Mental and Spiritual Support for Cancer Patients /; Lessons About Dying and Death from Disasters /; Death through the Eyes of Innocence: Perceptions of Death in Childhood /; How Mortality Salience Affects Religiosity: Considering Life History Theory, Terror Management Theory and IQ /; Fatum and Fragility: Mario Perniola’s Philosophy of Death /; Satire’s Mirror: Exposing Death Denial in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels /; On Kevorkian, Vivisection and Beneficent Execution /; Determining Death: Perspectives from World Religions /; Peter Brueghel’s Triumph of Death /; Exploring Funeral Fashions and Music pro defunctis in the Southern Netherlands (1600-1799) /; Honour(ing) The Departed: How Death Facilitates Honour in American Culture /; Resisting Intimations of Immortality: Aubrey de Grey’s Science and Saramago’s Novel /; Death and the Maiden: Bataille, Blanchot and the Deathly Female Figure /; The Death of the Author’s Mother: Postmodern Uncertainties in Contemporary Memoir /; Showing Mourning in Slow Motion /; Near-Death Experiences throughout the History of Art and Science: Challenges for the XXI century /; The Film Musical as Cultural Vehicle for Dealing with Death and Dying /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1848881738
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lloyd Steffen, Nate Hinerman.

This inter- and multi-disciplinary volume examines how culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are remembered. Over the past three decades, scholarship in thanatology has increased dramatically. This text localizes a broad array of perspectives that research, analyze, and interpret the many interrelations and interactions that exist between death and culture. Culture not only presents and portrays ideas about ‘a good death’ and norms that seek to achieve it, but culture also operates as both a vehicle and medium through which meaning about death is communicated and understood. Sadly, too, culture sometimes facilitates death through violence.