Overview

A collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthologyconsiders to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life—with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to self-reflexively question how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medical humanities, Spectacular Death gives us an enlightening new perspective on death from the classical world to the twenty-first century.

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Author:   Tristanne Connolly
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781841503226

ISBN 10:   1841503223
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   15 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Tristanne Connolly   Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy – Tristanne Connolly   Life, Death, and the In-Between: The Duck-Rabbit / The Face of the Clown – Alan Blum   The Illness of Hope, the Cure of Truth and the Difference of Principle: A Reflexive Analysis of Antigone’s and Meursault’s Confrontation with Death  – Kieran Bonner   Enlightenment and Romanticism: Aestheticizing the Corpse – Tristanne Connolly   Reflexive Vectors: Art, Anatomy and Death in Cowper and Gamelin – Morgan Tunzelmann   ""Mother of Unworthy Woe"": Infant Death and Sentimental Maternity in British Romantic Women's Poetry and Midwifery Books – Tristanne Connolly   Speaking of Death: Remembrance and Lamentation – Jan Plecash   Memorialization and the City – Tristanne Connolly   Enjoyment’s Petrification: The Luxor Obelisk in a Melancholic Century – Mike Follert   Barcelona, In Memoriam: The Tension between Urban Renovation and The Past – Marta Marín-Dòmine   Jewish Victims and German Youth: Questions of Pedagogy and Responsibility at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp – Elke Grenzer   X Marks the Spot: New Orleans Under Erasure – Kevin Dowler   Life and Death in New Orleans: Disaster Tours Imagined – Stephen Svenson and Cory Ruf   Policy: Border Control between Life and Death – Tristanne Connolly   Hope and resignation in medical care: when doctors go to court to terminate patient treatment – Diego Llovet   Life-threatening (anaphylactic) food allergies: School life, health and well-being – Saeed Hydaralli   Live Deaths and Afterlives – Tristanne Connolly   Game Death: Fantasy and Mastery in Scenario Paintball – Ariane Hanemaayer   Delirious Exhibitionism: Negotiating Technologies in Timothy Leary’s Live Death – Elizabeth C. Effinger   How the Dead Circulate (In Life) - Peter McHugh

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Tristanne Connolly is Associate Professor at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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