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Actively Dying - The Creation of Muslim Identities through End-of-Life Care in the United States (Paperback)
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Actively Dying - The Creation of Muslim Identities through End-of-Life Care in the United States (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
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This book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States
as they interact with the health care system during serious illness
and end-of-life care. It shifts "actively dying" from a medical
phrase used to describe patients who are expected to pass away soon
or who exhibit signs of impending death, to a theoretical framework
to analyze how end-of-life care, particularly within a hospital,
shapes the ways that patients, families, and providers understand
Islam and think of themselves as Muslim. Using the dying body as
the main object of analysis, the volume shows that religious
identities of Muslim patients, loved ones, and caregivers are not
only created when living, but also through the physical process of
dying and through death. Based on ethnographic and qualitative
research carried out mainly in the Washington, D.C. region, this
volume will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, sociology,
public health, gerontology, and religious studies.
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