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020			_a9780521694292 (paperback) _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1171572997
040			_aLUN _beng _erda _cLUN _dCUY _dOCLCF _dOCLCO
100	1		_aKellehear, Allan, _eauthor
245	1	2	_aA social history of dying / _cAllan Kellehear
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2007.
300			_ax, 297 pages ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes index and bibliographical references (page 257-280).
520			_aOur experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion.
650		0	_aDeath.
650		0	_aDeath _xSocial aspects _xHistory.
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