The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death
暫譯: 死亡的工藝:現代死亡的面貌
Lofland, Lyn H., Troyer, John, Francis, Ara A.
- 出版商: Summit Valley Press
- 出版日期: 2019-04-23
- 售價: $970
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $922
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 168
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262537346
- ISBN-13: 9780262537346
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商品描述
The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.
Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission. Lofland identifies, critiques, and theorizes 1970s death movements, including the Death Acceptance Movement, the Death with Dignity Movement, and the Natural Death movement. All these groups attempted to transform death into a "positive experience," anticipating much of today's death and dying activism.
Lofland turns a sociologist's eye on the era's increased interest in death, considering, among other things, the components of the modern "face of death" and the "craft of dying," the construction of a dying role or identity by those who are dying, and the constraints on their freedom to do this. Lofland wrote just before the AIDS epidemic transformed the landscape of death and dying in the West; many of the trends she identified became the building blocks of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. The Craft of Dying will help readers understand contemporary death social movements' historical relationships to questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality and is a book that everyone interested in end-of-life politics should read.
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《死亡工藝》四十週年紀念版,經典且具前瞻性的著作,探討死亡與臨終議題。
當今許多關於臨終問題的文獻忽略了1970年代社會運動在塑造我們對死亡、臨終及死者理解中的重要性。Lyn Lofland的《死亡工藝》這本紀念版開始修補這一遺漏。Lofland識別、批判並理論化了1970年代的死亡運動,包括死亡接受運動、尊嚴死亡運動和自然死亡運動。這些團體都試圖將死亡轉變為一種「正面的經驗」,預示了當今許多死亡與臨終的行動主義。
Lofland以社會學家的視角審視這個時代對死亡日益增長的興趣,考慮了現代「死亡面貌」和「死亡工藝」的組成部分,包括臨終者所建構的死亡角色或身份,以及他們在這方面的自由受到的限制。Lofland在艾滋病疫情改變西方死亡與臨終景觀之前撰寫了這本書;她所識別的許多趨勢成為1980年代和1990年代艾滋病行動主義的基石。《死亡工藝》將幫助讀者理解當代死亡社會運動與種族、階級、性別和性取向問題的歷史關係,是每位對臨終政治感興趣的人都應該閱讀的書籍。