The Spirit Ambulance

Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

von Scott Stonington

204 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington's gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a "debt of life" to their elders through intensive medical care, followed by a medically assisted rush from the hospital to home to ensure a spiritually advantageous last breath. The result is a powerful exploration of the nature of death and the complexities arising from the globalization of biomedical expertise and ethics around the world.

• Reihe: University of California Press
• ISBN: 9780520343894
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: UCAL POD