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Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America

Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America

Joralemon, Donald

Hardcover

AnthropologyDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 1629583928
ISBN13: 9781629583921
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 31 2016
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
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 includes contemporary debates about highly visible cases, the definition of death, the status of human remains, aging, and the medicalization of grief, demonstrating persuasively that arguments over death and dying are in fact arguments about what it means to be human in modern America. Written in the first-person for a broad audience by a senior anthropologist, this is an authoritative yet accessible textbook for courses on death and dying and American culture.

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