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The Comfort of People (Hardcover)
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The Comfort of People (Hardcover)
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At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In
this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading
anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering
from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of
personal stories, based on interviews conducted with patients of an
English hospice, Miller draws out the implications of these
narratives for our understanding of community, friendship, and
kinship, but also loneliness and isolation. This is a book about
people's lives, not their deaths: about the hospice patients rather
than the hospice. It focuses on the comfort given by friends,
carers and relatives through both face-to-face relations and,
increasingly, online communication. Miller asks whether the
loneliness and isolation he uncovers is the result of a decline of
English patterns of socialising, or their continuation. This moving
and deeply humane book combines warmth and sharp observation with
anthropological insight and practical suggestions for the use of
media by the hospice. It will be of interest not only to students
and scholars of anthropology, sociology, social policy and media
and cultural studies, but also to healthcare professionals and,
indeed, to anyone who would like to know more about the role of
relationships in the final stage of our lives.
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