End of Life Communication: Stories from the Dead Zone

by Christine S. Davis and Jonathan Crane

Book Overview

This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting.

Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience and fiction, to understand the relationship between them. The authors use complementary perspectives to examine what it means when we speak and think of death as it is conceived in cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138231711
• ISBN13: 9781138231719
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"