Birth and Death: Experience, Ethics, Politics

ISBN-13: 9780815380689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 146 str.

Kath Woodward; Sophie Woodward

Opis

Usually conceived in opposition to each other – birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending – this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living.

 

Spis treści

1. Birth and Death; 2. Sheila Kitzinger: A Life in Birth and a Good Death; 3. Personal and Social; 4. Visibility and Visualisation; 5. Public and Private: Rituals and Routines; 6. The Medical and the Natural: Embodied Selves; 7. Crossing Boundaries: Ethics and Experience; 8. Conclusion: Giving Birth, Dying and Mostly, Living.