Anthropology at the End of Life

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 477-490

  Barrett, Ron ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology at the end of life; Denial and healing unto death; Examining multiple scripts and metaphors "dying one's own way" in Japanese society; Experience near thanatology "thanatology," death with dignity movement of early 1970s; Glaser and Strauss (1965), classic sociological analysis of communication dynamics; Human beings, odd habit of considering inevitability of their own mortality; Mortality awareness, overall well being aging of world societies, global health disparities; North American ideal of independence problematic in Japanese contexts; Schoepenhauer, proposing that death is the muse of philosophy; The good death, ideals and realities interpreting stories as allegorical prescriptions for ars moriendi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885498390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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