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How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying - Softcover

Erickson, Karla

 
9781439908242: How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1439908249 ISBN 13: 9781439908242
Publisher: Temple University Press, 2013

Synopsis

As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How We Die Now is an absorbing and sensitive investigation of end-of-life issues from the perspectives of patients, relatives, medical professionals, and support staff.
 
Karla Erickson immersed herself in the daily life of workers and elders in a Midwestern community for over two years to explore important questions around the theme of “how we die now.” She moves readers through and beyond the many fears that attend the social condition of old age and reveals the pleasures of living longer and the costs of slower, sometimes senseless ways of dying.
 
For all of us who are grappling with the “elder boom,” How We Die Now offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.

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About the Author

Karla A. Erickson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Grinnell College. She is the author of The Hungry Cowboy: Service and Community in a Neighborhood Restaurant and co-editor (with Jennifer Pierce and Hokulani Aikau) of Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations, Life Stories from the Academy, 1964-2000.

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1439908249
ISBN 13 
9781439908242
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
212