Death and dying in anxious America

The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 317-344

  Scheper Hughes, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (37)

1. Claude Levi-Strauss, pers. comm., Berkeley, California, fall 1984.
2. "More Elderly Having Transplants," USA Today, February 4, 2008.
3. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "The Tyranny of the Gift: Sacrificial Violence in Living Donor Transplants," American Journal of Transplant 7 (2007): 1-5.
4. Sharon Kaufman, A. Russ, and J. Shim, "Aged Bodies and Kinship Matters," American Ethnologist 33, no. 1 (2006): 82.
5. Philippe Aries, Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974).
6. Santa Fe, NM: Twelvetrees Press, 1990
7. Near Death, dir. Frederick Wiseman (Exit Films, 1989).
8. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "Biopiracy and the Global Quest for Organs," NACLA Report on the Americas 39 (March-April 2006): 14-21.
9. Sharon Kaufman, And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life (New York: Scribner, 2005).
10. Annie Cheney, Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains (New York: Broadway Books, 2006);
11. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loïc Wacquant, eds., Commodifying Bodies (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005);
12. Lesley Sharp, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).
13. "Radio Legend Cooke Dies Aged 95," BBC News, March 30, 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/entertainment/3581465.stm.
14. Alec Russell, "Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen by Transplant Gang," Daily Telegraph, December 23, 2005.
15. Susan Cooke Kittredge, "Black Shrouds and Black Markets," New York Times, March 5, 2006.
16. Susan Cooke Kittredge, "Found and Lost," homily delivered on January 8, 2006,
17. Susan Cooke Kittredge, "Because . . . ," homily delivered on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006,
18. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, "Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology of Genocide," Anthropology Today 17, no. 1 (2001): 12-18.
19. "Culture of Terror-Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture," Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 (July 1984): 467-97,
20. "The Case of Ellen West" [1944- 45], in Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology, ed. Rollo May (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958), 237-364.
21. Margaret Lock, Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002);
22. "A Definition of Irreversible Coma: Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death," JAMA 205, no. 6 (1968): 337-40.
23. Pope Pius XII, "The Prolongation of Life," The Pope Speaks 4 (Spring 1958): 398.
24. Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 166.
25. E. E. Evans Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande (New York: Oxford University Press, 1937).
26. Shirley Lindenbaum, Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands (Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1979);
27. G.W. Milton, "Self-Willed Death or the Bone-Pointing Syndrome," Lancet 23 (June 1973): 1435-36.
28. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, updated and expanded ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 358 n.
29. The relevant books by Ivan Illich include Deschooling Society (New York: Harper and Row, 1971);
30. Tools for Conviviality (New York: Harper and Row, 1973);
31. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (New York: Pantheon Books, 1976);
32. Toward a History of Needs (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978)
33. Jerry Brown, "Ivan Illich,"
34. "Remembering Ivan Illich: Reflections on a Seminal Cultural Critic/Intellectual Gadfly," by Carl Mitcham et al., Whole Earth, Spring 2003, http:// wtp.org/.
35. Jules Henry, On Sham, Vulnerability and Other Forms of Self-Destruction (New York: Random House, 1973).
36. Joao Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).
37. James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985).