Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about
death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age
ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary
Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes
the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the
major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating,
preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book,
first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and
clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The
historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer
dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and
global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a
rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or
medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its
greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social
exclusion.
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