Dying and Death

Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2245-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Death is a topic people are reluctant to ponder. Neither is dying a process that is usually being openly discussed. However, on a variety of occasions, dying and death are on a person’s minds, under some sensitive circumstances, he or she are eager to discuss with a close person, a friend, a professional.

The present volume, the second in the Series on Dying and Death, is meant to enrich personal experience of dying or death by providing its reader with knowledge and understanding of some aspects of dying or death.

Section 1 describes practices of mourning, in different times and places: USA during the Civil War (Ashley Byock), the Island of Viz, between Croatia and Italy (Kathleen Young), present day Israel (Asa Kasher), medieval Serbia (Mira Crouch) and post-Holocaust USA (Paula David).
Section 2 consists of reflections on mourning. It includes philosophical discussions of Friendship (Gary Peters), Grace (Dana Freibach-Heifetz), and the Other (Havi Carel), all in the context of mourning, as well as Mourning itself as a skill (Marguerite Peggy Flynn).
Section 3 brings papers on culture and suicide, in early modern Holland (Laura Cruz), in historical Japan (Lawrence Fouraker), as well as in the Jazz age (Kathleen Jones).
Section 4 discusses different predicaments of medics facing death and dying: terminal diagnosis (Angela Armstrong-Coster), palliative patients (Anna Taube), and the hospice setting (Elizabeth Gill).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kasher, Asa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
PART I Practices of Mourning
Ashley BYOCK: Embalming the American Body: Sentimental Mourning on the Cusp of the Civil War
Asa KASHER: Collective Emotions and National Mourning
Paula DAVID: Issues of Death and Dying for Adult Children Of Holocaust Survivors
Mira CROUCH: Death and Images of Womanhood and Manhood: The Case of Serbian Epic Poetry
Kathleen Z. YOUNG: Extreme Makeovers and Reciprocal Relations between the Living and the Dead
PART II Reflections on Mourning
Gary PETERS: The Death of a Friend: Some Themes in Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning
Havi CAREL: Death and the Other: The Ambivalence of Mourning
Dana FREIBACH-HEIFETZ: Grace towards the Dead
Marguerite Peggy FLYNN: Death and Mourning: Logistics and Mystery
PART III Culture and Suicide
Laura CRUZ: For Fear of What the Neighbours Might Say: Social Networks and Suicide in Early Modern Holland
Kathleen JONES: When a Young Woman Dies: Gender, Youth and the Meaning of Suicide in the Jazz Age
Lawrence FOURAKER: “Voluntary Death” in Japanese History and Culture
PART IV Medics Facing Death and Dying
Angela ARMSTRONG-COSTER: Medics Facing Terminal Diagnosis?
Elizabeth GILL: Between Organizations, Family and Death: Caring Creatively within the Hospice Organization
Anna Wreath TAUBE: Reflections on the Needs of Palliative Patients after Being on the Receiving End of Care
Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Asa Kasher is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and until recently Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice at Tel Aviv University. He has published extensively in philosophy of language, military ethics and other areas of philosophy, such as meaning of life and death. He won the highest national Prize of Israel in Philosophy.