The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
Scott Stonington
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.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
খন্ড:
49
সাল:
2020
প্রকাশক:
Univ of California Press
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
208
ISBN 10:
0520975235
ISBN 13:
9780520975231
বইয়ের সিরিজ:
California Series in Public Anthropology
ফাইল:
PDF, 2.76 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020