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The Contemporary Deathbed
eBook - The Ultimate Rush, Language, Discourse, Society
ISBN/EAN: 9780230514058
Umbreit-Nr.: 3394055
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 312 S., 1.94 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.04.2005
Auflage: 1/2005
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Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust vehicles of popular culture: film and television, have opted for the latter scenario. This book examines the hi-tech death of the twenty-first century as enacted in our hospitals and as portrayed on our TV screens.
- Kurztext
- How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust vehicles of popular culture: film and television, have opted for the latter scenario. This book examines the hi-tech death of the twenty-first century as enacted in our hospitals and as portrayed on our TV screens.
- Autorenportrait
- JOHN TERCIER is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. He is an emergency medicine specialist and cultural historian and has practised and taught in Canada, the USA, the UK and the Middle East. His continuing research examines the influence of the media on medical practice.