John Tercier

Gebundenes Buch

The Contemporary Deathbed

The Ultimate Rush

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Language, Discourse, Society
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-4628-7
• 2005
• Seitenzahl: 297
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 146mm x 27mm
• ISBN-13: 9781403946287
• ISBN-10: 1403946280
• Artikelnr.: 21063855