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    Life sentences : the modern ordering of mortality (2008)
    Toronto [u.a.] : Univ. of Toronto Press
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    ISBN: 9780802097552
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 202 S. , Ill. - ill , 24cm
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Death Social aspects ; History ; Death Social aspects ; History ; Life and death, Power over Social aspects ; History ; Westliche Welt ; Tod ; Sterblichkeit ; Menschenwürde ; Sterben ; Sozialordnung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Life Sentences : The Modern Ordering of Mortality (2008)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press
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    ISBN: 9780802097552
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Bayatrizi, Zohreh Life Sentences : The Modern Ordering of Mortality
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention
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    Life sentences : the modern ordering of mortality (2008)
    Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press
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    ISBN: 9781442688490 , 1442688491
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource , ill., map)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bayatrizi, Zoreh Life Sentences : The Modern Ordering of Mortality
    DDC: 306.9
    Keywords: Death Social aspects ; History ; Western countries ; Death Social aspects ; History ; Life and death, Power over Social aspects ; History ; Death Social aspects ; History ; Death Social aspects ; History ; Life and death, Power over Social aspects ; History ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Death, Grief, Bereavement ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying ; Death ; Social aspects ; History ; Western countries ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books.
    Abstract: Introduction: the modern ordering of mortality -- Thou shalt not die violently: death and the modern problematic of order -- Thou shalt not die prematurely: the political economy of death -- Thou shalt not kill thyself: the de-moralization of suicide -- Thou shalt not die an undignified death: the discursive constitution of death with dignity -- Conclusion: thou shalt die an orderly death.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688490
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    Life Sentences : The Modern Ordering of Mortality (2008)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | [Berlin] : [Walter de Gruyter GmbH]
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    ISBN: 9781442688490
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
    Edition: [2016]
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention. She examines the process that has caused death to be understood in five quasi-biblical commandments: "thou shalt not die violently; thou shalt not die prematurely; thou shalt not kill thyself; and thou shalt not die an undignified death, so that thou shalt die an orderly death." Beginning with John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) - considered the first book of statistics - and philosopher Thomas Hobbes's declaration that society must minimize the "greatest evil" of unsanctioned violent deaths, Bayatrizi traces the pivotal moments that have changed our understanding of death. While illuminating the history of our increasingly rationalized understanding of death, she also examines some of our most contradictory reactions to controversial topics such as suicide, euthanasia, suicide bombing, "collateral damage," and how our moral values have been shaped by an understanding of the proper place of a well-ordered death in modern society. Both historically rigorous and vigorously engaged in contemporary debates, Life Sentences will be of interest to anyone interested in how we deal with death before we die.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442688490
    URL: http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442688490
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