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Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about

death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age

ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary

Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes

the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the

major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating,

preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This is a

major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about

human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places

our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader

historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear

argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It

is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents

modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather

poverty, ageing and social exclusion.

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. The dawn of mortal awareness

2. The otherworld journey - death as dying

3. The first challenge - anticipating death

4. The emergence of sedentism

5. The birth of the good death

6. The second challenge - preparing for death

7. The rise and spread of cities

8. The birth of the well-managed death

9. The third challenge - taming death

10. The exponential rise of modernity

11. The birth of the Shameful death

Conclusion

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'This is no ordinary book. The next generation of death scholars will have to come to terms with it. And it is superb in showing how sociology can illuminate the findings of archaeology and history.' Times Higher Education Supplement