Beyond the Good Death
The Anthropology of Modern Dying
In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help end his life on his own terms. After delivering the videotape to 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was arrested and convicted of manslaughter, despite the fact that Youk's family firmly believed that the ending of his life qualified as a good death.Death is political, as the controversies surrounding Jack Kevorkian and, more recently, Terri Schiavo have shown. While death is a natural event, modern end-of-life experiences are shaped by new medica…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0207-6
- EAN: 9780812202076
- Produktnummer: 13916993
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'579 KB
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By James W. Green
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