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Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Can Tell Us About Life and Living
Brandy Schillace
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Description for Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Can Tell Us About Life and Living
Hardcover. A perceptive, thoughtful and very timely reflection on our culture of mortality and mourning Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
A new conversation is starting on this most universal of topics. But to know where we are heading, we need to know where we have come from...Death is the one subject we will all confront; it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances. What led us to this point - what drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar? In Death's Summer Coat Brandy Schillace explores our past to examine what it might mean for ... Read more
A new conversation is starting on this most universal of topics. But to know where we are heading, we need to know where we have come from...Death is the one subject we will all confront; it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances. What led us to this point - what drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar? In Death's Summer Coat Brandy Schillace explores our past to examine what it might mean for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783960408
SKU
V9781783960408
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99-50
About Brandy Schillace
Dr Brandy Schillace writes about culture, the history of medicine, and the intersections of medicine and literature. She is Research Associate and guest curator for the Dittrick Medical History Center and Managing Editor of the international medical anthropology journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. She teaches for the SAGES department at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and has lectured at ... Read more
Reviews for Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Can Tell Us About Life and Living
"Vivid, scholarly, enthralling and surprisingly touching, Death's Summer Coat is skilfully stitched together."
Rupert Callender, editor of The Natural Death Handbook "A lively, panoramic view of our approach to death and dying that asks essential questions, and offers important insights, into the inevitable."
Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest in Pieces "At once scholarly but also infused with personal ... Read more
Rupert Callender, editor of The Natural Death Handbook "A lively, panoramic view of our approach to death and dying that asks essential questions, and offers important insights, into the inevitable."
Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest in Pieces "At once scholarly but also infused with personal ... Read more