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The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush (Language, Discourse, Society)
John Tercier
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Description for The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush (Language, Discourse, Society)
Hardcover. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APT; JFCA; JHBZ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 545.
How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust vehicles of popular culture: film and television, have opted for the latter scenario. This book examines the hi-tech death of the twenty-first century as enacted in our hospitals and as portrayed on our TV screens.
How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust vehicles of popular culture: film and television, have opted for the latter scenario. This book examines the hi-tech death of the twenty-first century as enacted in our hospitals and as portrayed on our TV screens.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Language, Discourse, Society
Number of Pages
297
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403946287
SKU
V9781403946287
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About John Tercier
JOHN TERCIER is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. He is an emergency medicine specialist and cultural historian and has practised and taught in Canada, the USA, the UK and the Middle East. His continuing research examines the influence of the media on medical practice.
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