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Author:
Long, Susan Orpett.
Title:
Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life / Susan Orpett Long.
Publisher:
University of Hawai'i Press,
Copyright Date:
c2005
Description:
xi, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Death--Social aspects--Japan.
Terminally ill--Japan.
Life and death, Power over.
Ethnopsychology--Japan.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-278) and index.
Contents:
Culture and choice at the end of life -- Anthropology and the study of dying -- Structuring the options for dying : Japan as a postindustrial society -- Metaphors and scripts for the good death -- Who decides? : social roles and relationships -- Deciding to treat or not to treat -- Life-and-death decisions and cultural stereotypes -- New scripts and culture change -- Choice and the creation of a meaningful death.
ISBN:
9780824829643
9780824829100
9780824829643 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824829646 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780824829100 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824829107 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)59011485
LCCN:
2005010226
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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