Title Unequal before death / edited by Christina Staudt and Marcelline Block

Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (lii, 248 pages) : illustrations Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX Summary Death has been deemed the "great equalizer," but each journey towards our shared, ultimate fate is unique. The length of our lives, the quality of our last days, how our deaths are perceived by others, and the handling of our remains are governed by nature and many socio-cultural factors. Unequal Before Death is an edited collection that addresses inequalities surrounding death from the perspectives of scholars in a wide range of humanistic and social science disciplines, including art histor .. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Papers from a conference held March 2010, Columbia University Death -- Social aspects -- Congresses Mortality -- Congresses Terminally ill -- Congresses Death -- Religious aspects -- Congresses Equality -- Congresses Sociology: death & dying. Humanities. Interdisciplinary studies. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying. Death -- Religious aspects Death -- Social aspects Equality Mortality Terminally ill Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Staudt, Christina Block, Marcelline ISBN 144383856X 9781443838566 1299659101 9781299659100

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