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Governing Death and Loss - Empowerment, Involvement and Participation (Paperback, New)
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Governing Death and Loss - Empowerment, Involvement and Participation (Paperback, New)
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Political, economic, social, cultural and technological changes
have led to profound transformations in the ways that death and
loss are perceived and managed in contemporary society. Over the
last few decades, the long term shift to chronic illness as a major
causal factor has significantly increased the time scale of dying.
Most people die in institutions and 'care' is typically medical.
Many communities and ordinary citizens now relinquish control and
involvement to experts in the last stages of life.
At global and local levels, however, new arrangements are emerging
to govern the changing face of death, and a reorientation model is
being developed to counter claims of the 'creeping medicalisation'
of death and dying. With an international authorship and scope,
this book illustrates the interlinking nature of society, death and
loss, and it gives examples of governance that promotes the
empowerment, participation and the increasing need for the
involvement of ordinary people and communities in differing social
and cultural contexts.
Chapters come from collaborations of academics and practitioners in
end of life care - from sociologists, anthropologists or the arts
but also from nursing, social work, or medicine. The result is a
reflective, academic and practical discussion of the outline of the
problem we face in the contemporary governance of death, and an
exploration of the critical, theoretical and practice-based ways
forward for us all.
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