Death by Default
Author: Robin Munro
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781564321633
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Author: Robin Munro
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781564321633
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Author: Dorothy Pallesen
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780473035457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Written ... to stimulate a change in the way domestic violence is dealt with ... to ensure that our community teams of police, psychiatric medical staff, psychiatric social workers, family court and family court social workers are more thoroughly trained to handle emotionally disturbed people with deep seated emotional problems"--Thanks.
Author: Zizi Papacharissi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1351784110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We are born, live, and die with technologies. This book is about the role technology plays in sustaining narratives of living, dying, and coming to be. Contributing authors examine how technologies connect, disrupt, or help us reorganize ways of parenting and nurturing life. They further consider how technology sustains our ways of thinking and being, hopefully reconciling the distance between who we are and who we aspire to be. Finally, they address the role technology plays in helping us come to terms with death, looking at technologically enhanced memorials, online rituals of mourning, and patterns of grief enabled through technology. Ultimately, this volume is about using technology to reimagine the art of life.
Author: Cheng Nien
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 0802145167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Author: Yew-Kwang Ng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1107194946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book is researched and written with strong academic rigor and persuasive argument that also makes it accessible to the general public. Considering efficiency, equality, and morality, it argues for market expansion, particularly in legalizing kidney sales and prostitution. These are highly controversial issues with important public policy significance.
Author: Taryn Schuelke
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781951253400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book dives right into the topic that most adults prefer to avoid talking or even thinking about: death. It explains the practical aspects and gracefully navigates the nuances of emotion and community that surrounds something we all experience.
Author: Sam Han
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-16
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 131544674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In modern times, death is understood to have undergone a transformation not unlike religion. Whereas in the past it was out in the open, it now resides mostly in specialized spaces of sequestration—funeral homes, hospitals and other medical facilities. A mainstay in so-called traditional societies in the form of ritual practices, death was usually messy but meaningful, with the questions of what happens to the dead or where they go lying at the heart of traditional culture and religion. In modernity, however, we are said to have effectively sanitized it, embalmed it and packaged it—but it seems that death is back. In the current era marked by economic, political and social uncertainty, we see it on television, on the Internet; we see it almost everywhere. (Inter)Facing Death analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory. It argues that death today can be thought of as "interfaced," that is mediated and expressed, in various aspects of contemporary life rather than put to the side or overcome, as many narratives of modernity have suggested. Employing concepts from anthropology, sociology, media studies and communications, (Inter)Facing Death examines diverse phenomena where death and digital culture meet, including art, online suicide pacts, the mourning of celebrity deaths, terrorist beheadings and selfies. Providing new lines of thinking about one of the oldest questions facing the human and social sciences, this book will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory, anthropology, sociology and cultural and media studies with interests in death.