The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well - Image 1

£80.00

University of Notre Dame Press The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well

Name: The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well
Brand: University of Notre Dame Press
Price: 80.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price data last checked 68 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£80 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 23 days • 23 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 23 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £80 (23 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £80 - £80

Price levels: 1 different prices over 23 days

Description

Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but fail in the face of the dependency that comes with aging and decline at the end of life. To help correct the ethical impoverishment at the root of our contemporary social confusion, The Evening of Life provides an interdisciplinary examination of the challenges of aging and dying well. It calls for a re-envisioning of cultural concepts, practices, and virtues that embraces decline, dependency, and finitude rather than stigmatizes them. Bringing together the work of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, this collection of essays develops an interrelated set of conceptual tools to discuss the current challenges posed to aging and dying well, such as flourishing, temporality, narrative, and friendship. Above all, it proposes a positive understanding of thriving in old age that is rooted in our shared vulnerability as human beings. It also suggests how some of these tools and concepts can be deployed to create a medical system that better responds to our contemporary needs. The Evening of Life will interest bioethicists, medical practitioners, clinicians, and others involved in the care of the aging and dying. Contributors: Joseph E. Davis, Sharon R. Kaufman, Paul Scherz, Wilfred M. McClay, Kevin Aho, Charles Guignon, Bryan S. Turner, Janelle S. Taylor, Sarah L. Szanton, Janiece Taylor, and Justin Mutter

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Notre Dame Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0268108013
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2020
Listed Since: 18 January 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Notre Dame Press The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Health and care in ageing societies: A New International Approach (Ageing and the Lifecourse Series)

Routledge End-of-Life Care: Disability and Aging Book

Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care

Death and Dying in India: Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Planning Later Life: Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies (Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy)

Other Cultures, Elder Years: An Introduction to Cultural Gerontology (Educational Management)

Communication at the End of Life: 6 (Lifespan Communication)

Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making

Life Course and Society (Social Perspectives in the 21st Century)

Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics)

Introduction to Aging: A Positive, Interdisciplinary Approach

Aging and Human Nature: Perspectives from Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Anthropology: 25 (International Perspectives on Aging, 25)

Redfern's Nursing Older People

Lessons on Aging from Three Nations: The Art of Caring for Older Adults (Society and Aging Series)

Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill

The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology

International Handbook of Positive Aging (Routledge International Handbooks)

Handbook of Rural Aging (Routledge Handbooks)

Clinical Education in Geriatrics - Routledge Textbook

Philosophies and Sociologies of Bioethics: Crossing the divides

The New Neighborhood Senior Center: Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby Boom Generation

Aging, Death and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry

The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality

Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place in America