Blunt traumas : : negotiating suffering and death / / edited by Nate Hinerman and Holly Lynn Baumgartner.

From the ridicule of Emo culture on YouTube to the minute joys of the Happy Hour Trolley in an Australian palliative care setting, responses to suffering and death range from avoidance to eradication. Blunt Traumas thoughtfully engages these topics with compassion and brutal honesty. Contributors ac...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Nate Hinerman and Holly Lynn Baumgartner
  • Another Narrative of Death: The Outrage and Kurosawa’s Rashomon / Shunichi Ueno
  • Death in Public: Text Analysis of a Newspaper Debate / Lisbeth Thoresen
  • Ghostbook: On the Internet, No One Really Dies / Trace Norris
  • Ridiculing Suffering on YouTube: Digital Parodies of Emo Style / Anna Johansson and Hans T. Sternudd
  • Case Studies of Prior Self-Knowledge and Synchronistic Signs of Approaching Death / Huai Bao
  • Schopenhauer and Modernity: Disclosing Modern Malaise / Jordi Cabos
  • Dead Baby Bloggers: Making Sense of Death through Online Grieving / Jennifer Cypher
  • What Good Is Religious Belief for Fear of Death and Grief? / David B. Feldman , Ian C. Fischer and Robert A. Gressis
  • The Unhealed Wounds of War: Social Sources of Suffering and War-Related Traumatic Experiences / Elizabeth Gill
  • Clare, Agnes and Agency in Suffering / Holly Lynn Baumgartner
  • Autonomy, a Contested Concept: A Systematic Review of the Meaning of ‘Autonomy’ in Qualitative Research on End-of-Life Decisions / Manya Hendriks and Robert Pool
  • On Becoming Osteoporotic: The Fragility of Identity Fractured Bones and Shattered Identities / Richard B. Hovey
  • Another Way to Argue for the Killing/Letting Die Distinction / Francesca Marin
  • Rational Religious Suicide / Lloyd Steffen
  • When the Happy Hour Trolley Enters: Cloaking Death through Performance in Palliative Care / Holi Birman
  • Between Denial and Acceptance: Paul Tillich’s Reflection on Suffering and Finitude / Andrzej Dańczak
  • In the Shadow of the Trenches or History Unmade: Doris Lessing’s Alfred and Emily (2008) / Luísa Maria Flora
  • Young People: Voice, Loss Narratives, and the Development of Emotional Literacies / Sukhbinder Hamilton.