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Beschreibung
Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people's experiences of dying and grief.
Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people's experiences of dying and grief.
Über den Autor
Tony Walter is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: MODERNITY
1. Longevity
2. Medicine
3. Commodification
4. Communication
5. Death denial?
PART II: RISK
6. Security and insecurity
7. The physical world
PART III: CULTURE
8. Individual and group
9. Family
10. Religion
PART IV: NATION
11. Modernizing the nation
12. War
13. Policy and politics
PART V: GLOBALIZATION
14. Global flows
15. Death's futures
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781526402943
ISBN-10: 1526402947
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Walter, Tony
Hersteller: SAGE Publications Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Tony Walter
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2020
Gewicht: 0,48 kg
Artikel-ID: 116817401