TY - BOOK ID - 5402892 TI - A social history of dying. PY - 2007 SN - 9780521694292 0521694299 9780511481352 9780511296260 0511296266 0511292295 9780511292293 0511295499 9780511295492 1107158338 128095941X 9786610959419 1139132741 0511293895 0511481357 0511294697 PB - New York Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - Death. KW - Death KW - Mort KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Aspect social KW - Dying KW - End of life KW - Life KW - Terminal care KW - Terminally ill KW - Thanatology KW - Social aspects&delete& KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5402892 AB - Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion. ER -