The Comfort of People
At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice, Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community, friendship, and kinship, but also loneliness and isolation. This is a book about people's lives, not their deaths: about the hospice patients rather than the hospice. It focuses on the comfort given by friends, carers and re…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5095-2435-8
- EAN: 9781509524358
- Produktnummer: 24831285
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 655 KB
Über den Autor
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.
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