Spectacular Death

<p>An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to question self-reflexively how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medical humanities <em>Spectacular Death</em> gives us an enlightening new perspective on death from the classical world to the twenty-first century.</p>