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Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a compelling and socially meaningful fashion. In a series of interrelated, mostly chronological, micronarratives beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the early twenty-first century, this book considers how and why death and dying are represented at certain historical moments using dramaturgy and aesthetics that challenge audiences' conceptions, sensibilities, and sense-making faculties. It includes a mix of well-known and lesser-known plays from an international range of dramatists and theatre-makers, and offers original interpretations through close reading and performance analysis.
Drama --- Death in the theater. --- Theater --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Stage --- Literature --- Dialogue --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- death. --- dying. --- end of life. --- modern theatre. --- mortality.
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Death and immortality played a central role in Greek and Roman thought, from Homer and early Greek philosophy to Marcus Aurelius. In this book A. G. Long explains the significance of death and immortality in ancient ethics, particularly Plato's dialogues, Stoicism and Epicureanism; he also shows how philosophical cosmology and theology caused immortality to be re-imagined. Ancient arguments and theories are related both to the original literary and theological contexts and to contemporary debates on the philosophy of death. The book will be of major interest to scholars and students working on Greek and Roman philosophy, and to those wishing to explore ancient precursors of contemporary debates about death and its outcomes.
Immortality (Philosophy) --- Death. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy
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euthanasia --- suicide --- right to die --- pro-euthanasia --- assisted suicide --- prescription drugs --- opiates --- poisons --- end of life --- chemical suicide --- nembutal --- medicine --- rational suicide --- legislation --- Switzerland
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This book provides an unique resource for registered nurses working in hospice palliative care at home and for the community, outside of acute care settings and also incorporates literature related to palliative care in acute health care settings, as part of the overall services and supports required. Very few resources exist which specifically address hospice palliative care in the home setting, despite the fact that most palliative care occurs outside acute care settings and is primarily supported by unpaid family caregivers. An overview of the concerns for individuals and families, as well as specific nursing interventions, from all ages would be an excellent support for nursing students and practicing registered nurses alike. The book structure begins with a description of the goals and objectives of hospice palliative care and the nursing role in providing excellent supportive care. Chapters include research findings and specifically research completed by the authors in the areas of pediatric palliative care, palliative care for those with dementia, and the needs of family caregivers in bereavement. Interventions developed by the editors are provided in this book, such as the “Finding Balance Intervention” for bereaved caregivers; the “Reclaiming Yourself” tool for bereaved spouses of partners with dementia; and The Keeping Hope Possible Toolkit for families of children with life threatening and life limiting illnesses. The development and application of these theory-based interventions are also highlighted. Videos and vignettes written by family caregivers about what was helpful for them, provide a patient-and family-centered approach. The book will benefit nursing students, educators and practicing registered nurses by providing information, theory, and evidence from research.
Hospice care. --- Nursing. --- Palliative treatment. --- Palliative Medicine. --- Practice and Hospital Management. --- Palliation (Medical care) --- Palliative care --- Palliative medicine --- Therapeutics --- Clinical nursing --- Nurses and nursing --- Nursing process --- Care of the sick --- Medicine --- Practice of medicine. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Palliative Care. --- Bereavement. --- Death. --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Thanatology --- Fatal Outcome --- Bereavements --- Death
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Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with social and political processes in historical and contemporary Korea. In this first book-length volume on the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a socio-politically meaningful death and how the surviving community should remember such events--back cover.
Suicide --- Death --- Martyrdom --- K9342.90 --- K9309 --- Suffering --- Martyrs --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Right to die --- History --- Korea: Social policy and pathology -- suicide --- Korea: Social sciences, society -- social theory, movements and protests --- Religious aspects --- Philosophy --- Causes --- Korea --- Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Martyrdom. --- History.
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hospice care --- end of life issues --- palliative medicine --- social medicine --- Palliative treatment --- Terminal care --- Public health --- Palliative Care. --- Palliative Medicine. --- Public health. --- Palliative treatment. --- Terminal care. --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death --- Palliation (Medical care) --- Palliative care --- Palliative medicine --- Therapeutics --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Medicine, Palliative --- Palliative Care Medicine --- Medicine, Palliative Care --- Palliative Care --- Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing --- Palliative Supportive Care --- Palliative Surgery --- Palliative Therapy --- Surgery, Palliative --- Therapy, Palliative --- Palliative Treatment --- Care, Palliative --- Palliative Treatments --- Supportive Care, Palliative --- Treatment, Palliative --- Treatments, Palliative --- Pain --- Terminal Care --- Palliative Medicine --- Care and treatment --- Medical care
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"This book is a 300-year social history of Protestant communication with the dead in early America (to the mid-nineteenth century); the people in the book are a wide variety of people. This book is also a history of women in religion"
Protestantism --- Women and religion --- Spiritualism --- Women and spiritualism --- Death --- 248*34 --- 248*34 Protestantse spiritualiteit --- Protestantse spiritualiteit --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Spiritualism and women --- Communication with the dead --- Dead, Communication with the --- Metapsychology --- Spiritism --- Occultism --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Christianity --- Church history --- Protestant churches --- Reformation --- Social aspects --- History --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Christian spirituality --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- United States --- United States of America
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Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying, not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge's court, but as an individual, at home in a bed or in a private room. In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. The majority of these imagined scenarios linked the quality of the experience to the moral state of the person who died. Death was no longer the "happy ending," in Judith Perkins's words, it had been to Christians of the first three centuries, an escape from the difficult and painful world. Instead, death was most often imagined as a terrifying, desperate experience. This book is the first to trace how, in late ancient Christianity, death came to be thought of as a moment of reckoning: a physical ordeal whose pain is followed by an immediate judgment of one's actions by angels and demons and, after that, fitting punishment. Because late ancient Christian culture valued the use of the imagination as a religious tool and because Christian teachers encouraged Christians to revisit the prospect of their deaths often, this novel description of death was more than an abstract idea. Rather, its appearance ushered in a new ethical sensibility among Christians, in which one's death was to be imagined frequently and anticipated in detail. This was, at first glance, meant as a tool for individuals: preachers counted on the fact that becoming aware of a judgment arriving at the end of one's life tends to sharpen one's scruples. But, as this book argues, the change in Christian sensibility toward death did not just affect individuals. Once established, it shifted the ethics of Christianity as a tradition. This is because death repeatedly and frequently imagined as the moment of reckoning created a fund of images and ideas about what constituted a human being and how variances in human morality should be treated. This had significant effects on the Christian assumption of power in late antiquity, especially in the case of the capacity to authorize violence against others. The thinking about death traced here thus contributed to the seemingly paradoxical situation in which Christians proclaimed their identity with a crucified person, yet were willing to use force against their ideological opponents.
Death --- Church history --- 27 "04/06" --- 261.6 --- 261.6 De Kerk en de cultuur: christelijke beschaving; Kerk en vooruitgang; Kerk en wereld --- De Kerk en de cultuur: christelijke beschaving; Kerk en vooruitgang; Kerk en wereld --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- 27 "04/06" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"04/06" --- 27 "04/06" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"04/06" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"04/06" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"04/06" --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Death - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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In his fascinating new book, based on the Conway Lectures he delivered at Notre Dame in 2016, William Courtenay examines aspects of the religious life of one medieval institution, the University of Paris, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In place of the traditional account of teaching programs and curriculum, however, the focus here is on religious observances and the important role that prayers for the dead played in the daily life of masters and students. Courtenay examines the university as a consortium of sub-units in which the academic and religious life of its members took place, and in which prayers for the dead were a major element. Throughout the book, Courtenay highlights reverence for the dead, which preserved their memory and was believed to reduce the time in purgatory for deceased colleagues and for founders of and donors to colleges. The book also explores the advantages for poor scholars of belonging to a confraternal institution that provided benefits to all members regardless of social background, the areas in which women contributed to the university community, including the founding of colleges, and the growth of Marian piety, seeking her blessing as patron of scholarship and as protector of scholars. Courtenay looks at attempts to offset the inequality between the status of masters and students, rich and poor, and college founders and fellows, in observances concerned with death as well as rewards and punishments in the afterlife. Rituals for the Dead is the first book-length study of religious life and remembrances for the dead at the medieval University of Paris. Scholars of medieval history will be an eager audience for this title.
Christian life --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Medieval funeral rites and ceremonies --- Christians --- Discipleship --- Religious life --- Theology, Practical --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Philosophy --- Université de Paris --- Paris-Sorbonne university --- University of Paris --- 393 "04/14" --- 393 <44> --- 378 <09> <44 PARIS> --- 378 <09> <44 PARIS> Geschiedenis van het hoger onderwijs. Geschiedenis van het universitair onderwijs--Frankrijk--PARIS --- Geschiedenis van het hoger onderwijs. Geschiedenis van het universitair onderwijs--Frankrijk--PARIS --- 393 <44> Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Frankrijk --- Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Frankrijk --- 393 "04/14" Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Middeleeuwen --- Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Middeleeuwen
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