Scott Stonington

The Spirit Ambulance (eBook, ePUB)

Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington's gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a "debt of life" to their elders through intensive medical care, followed by a medically assisted rush from the hospital to home to ensure a spiritually advantageous last breath. The result is a powerful exploration of the nature of death and the complexities arising from the globalization of biomedical expertise and ethics around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520975231
• Artikelnr.: 59566929

Autorenporträt

Scott Stonington, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.