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In modern society, we have professionalized our care for the dying
and deceased in hospitals and hospices, churches and funeral homes,
cemeteries and mausoleums to aid dazed and disoriented mourners.
But these formal institutions can be alienating and cold, leaving
people craving a more humane mourning and burial process. The
burial treatment itself has come to be seen as wasteful and
harmful-marked by chemicals, plush caskets, and manicured greens.
Today's bereaved are therefore increasingly turning away from the
old ways of death and searching for a more personalized,
environmentally reponsible, and ethical means of grief. Is the
Cemetery Dead? gets to the heart of the tragedy of death,
chronicling how Americans are inventing new or adapting old
traditions, burial places, and memorials. In illustrative prose,
David Charles Sloane shows how people are taking control of their
grief by bringing their relatives home to die, interning them in
natural burial grounds, mourning them online, or memorializing them
streetside with a shrine, ghost bike, or RIP mural. Today's
mourners are increasingly breaking free of conventions to better
embrace the person they want to remember. As Sloane shows, these
changes threaten the future of the cemetery, causing cemeteries to
seek to become more responsive institutions. A trained historian,
Sloane is also descendent from multiple generations of cemetery
managers and he grew up in Syracuse's Oakwood Cemetery. Enriched by
these experiences, as well as his personal struggles with
overwhelming grief, Is the Cemetery Dead? is a remarkable and
accessible tour of our new American way of death.
Drawn from the bestselling Clark's Positioning in Radiography, this
pocket handbook provides clear and practical advice to help
radiographers in their day-to-day work. Designed for rapid
reference, it covers how to position the patient and the central
ray, describes the essential image characteristics and illustrates
each radiographic projection with a positioning photograph and a
radiograph.
First published in 1939, Clark's Positioning in Radiography is the
pre-eminent text on positioning technique for diagnostic
radiographers. Whilst retaining the clear and easy-to-follow
structure of the previous edition, the thirteenth edition includes
a number of changes and innovations in radiographic technique. The
text has been extensively updated, including a new section on
evaluating images, The Ten Point Plan, which is linked throughout
to Essential Image Characteristics for each procedure. The section
on digital imaging has been expanded not only to elaborate more
extensively on the technology but to demonstrate its various
clinical applications. Students will also benefit from more
detailed reference to positioning errors and how to avoid mistakes,
as well as a greater emphasis on standard radiation protection
measures and guidance on the most recent radiation dose reference
levels for specific examinations.This new edition includes more
anatomical drawings to support better understanding of radiographic
anatomy, and brand-new positioning photographs reflecting the
different approaches in technique using the variety of imaging
platforms available in radiography departments. Clark's Positioning
in Radiography will continue to be the definitive work on
radiographic technique for all students on diagnostic radiography
courses, radiographers in practice and trainee radiologists
preparing for the FRCR or equivalent qualifying examinations.
This early work by Thomas Charles Sloane was originally published
in 1907 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction
Classics series. 'The Pterodactyl' is a short story about a
forgotten creature from a prehistoric age.
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