The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver (Medical Anthropology) 1978834888, 9781978834880

The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver (Medical Anthropology) 1978834888, 9781978834880

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The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver 9781978834927

In both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautifu

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Living and Dying on the Internet

‘Sorry,’ she said, ‘it’s just I’ve never met anyone famous before.’ ‘Sorry,’ I replied, ‘you still haven’t.’ In 2008, t

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The Shaman's Book of Living and Dying 9781612834665

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Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology 9780857450364

For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This vo

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The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying 9780735241077, 9780735241084, 0735241074

NATIONAL BESTSELLER *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY* An urgently import

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Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying 9780231557399

Drawing on a wide range of sources—from Toni Morrison to Derrida to grassroots “death positive” movements—Beatrice Marov

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Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living 9780231520034

In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell c

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Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying 0231208367, 9780231208369

Life and death are commonly seen as representing the starkest of binaries: Death is the ultimate adversary of all that l

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Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home 9781785336157

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frai

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