Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America

by Donald Joralemon

Book Overview

Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned "no." In his view, Americans are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book:

is written in the first-person...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629583936
• ISBN13: 9781629583938
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"