The Dying Body As A Lived Experience (Routledge Studies In The Sociology Of Health And Illness)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Dying Body as a Lived Experience -- Introduction: Living Life and Forgetting Death -- PART I Death, Mystery, Life -- 1 Desperation as a Grey Zone -- 2 Fear and Trembling -- 3 The Collective Fantasizes Death-the Imaginary at the end of its Tether -- 4 Fear and Likely Stories -- 5 Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life-The View from Sociology -- 6 Ending and Beginning -- PART II Dementia and the Look of Madness-Aging, Raging, and the Poetics of Passing On

• • Author: Alan Blum
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Sep 06, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 226 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138655155
• • ISBN-13: 9781138655157