Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life / Susan Orpett Long.
Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life / Susan Orpett Long.
Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life / Susan Orpett Long.
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Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2005.
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N306.90952/ 1
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English
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Physical content
xi, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Culture and choice at the end of life -- 2. Anthropology and the study of dying -- 3. Structuring the options for dying : Japan as a postindustrial society -- 4. Metaphors and scripts for the good death -- 5. Who decides? : social roles and relationships -- 6. Deciding to treat or not to treat --...
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Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2005.
Place of Publication
Hawaii
Date Published
c2005.
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Summary
"Grounded in ethnographic data, the book offers an examination of how policy and meaning frame the choices Japanese make about how to die. As an essay in descriptive bioethics, it engages an extensive literature in the social sciences and bioethics to examine some of the answers people have constructed to end-of-life issues. Like their counterparts...
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Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life / Susan Orpett Long.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306.90952/ 1
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74VKmqDoGELd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmqDoGELd
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ISBN
9780824829643 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824829107 (hbk.)
0824829646 (pbk.)
9780824829100 (hbk.)
9780824829643 (pbk.)
9780824829100 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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306.90952
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991020493039702626
