Death is that Man Names

Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Burt is Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law at Yale University. He is the author of The Constitution in Conflict (1992)! Two Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land (California! 1981)! and Taking Care of Strangers: The Rule of Law in Doctor-Patient Relations (1979). Klappentext "This book is enormously important! beautifully reasoned and written with crystal clarity by an author of wide scholarly experience! brilliant insights and extraordinary erudition. It is the first book length study I've seen that reasons from the individual psychology of all stakeholders. It ultimately provides the only truly revealing way to understand the personal and civic conundrums surrounding dying! which have always been characterized by irrational thinking! inconsistencies of behavior and paradoxes of personal viewpoints."-Sherwin Nuland! M.D.! author of How We Die "Once you acknowledge the profound and inescapable ambivalence that shapes our attitudes toward death! what can we learn about our death-dealing policies and practices! from end-of-life care and assisted suicide to the death penalty? Robert Burt's Death is That Man Taking Names provides extraordinary insights in eloquent and elegant prose. All thoughtful people who are seriously interested in the deeper roots and broader implications of our policies concerning death should read this remarkably original and provocative book."-Thomas H. Murray! President! The Hastings Center! and author of The Worth of a Child Zusammenfassung Offers an account of psychological and social forces underlying American cultural attitudes toward death. This book maintains that unacknowledged ambivalence is likely to undermine the beneficent goals of post-1970s reforms and harm the very people these changes were intended to help. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. I Fear No Evil: Pursuing the Good Death II. I Walk through Shadows: Hidden Death III. In the Presence of My Enemies: Death at War IV. Lead Me in Paths of Righteousness: Judges and Death V. They Comfort Me: Doctors and Death VI. He Makes Me Lie Down: Choosing Death VII. Surely Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow: The Death Penalty VIII. All the Days of My Life Notes ...

Product details

• Authors: Robert A. Burt, Burt Robert A., A. Burt Roberts
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2004
• EAN: 9780520243248
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24324-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 223 mm x 13 mm
• Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public; California/Milbank Books on He; California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public; California/Milbank Books on He
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, United States of America, USA, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying