The Good Death Through Time
- Death Through Time
- Categories:Social Sciences
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:February,2023
- Pages:256
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- Size:229mm×152mm
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Review
THE AGE
“Mahar’s book fascinates because it is as much a treatise about social change and contested values as it is an exploration of the ethics of dying well. Perhaps its greatest virtue is the sense that Mahar is not pursuing her own agenda. Instead, she sympathetically explains the different views people have held historically and shows why those perspectives might have made sense, given the beliefs, values and experiences of the time. In so doing, Mahar allows the reader to grasp the kernels of wisdom housed within very different perspectives … Mahar’s history enriches our understanding as we confront these contemporary challenges, but admirably leaves us free to make up our own minds.”
THE CONVERSATION
“The Good Death Through Time is a lucid and well-documented guide to a challenging topic. Mahar provides a sympathetic but clear-eyed picture of euthanasia’s many protagonists and perspectives without forcing a single view onto the reader.”
INSIDE STORY
“Mahar's unflinching research and writing is exactly what many nonfiction readers crave; in her book we come face-to-face with ourselves as a species.”
BOOKS + PUBLISHING
“In her scrupulously fair and richly informed contribution to 'the history of dying', Caitlin Mahar discloses the historically deep and culturally diverse sources of our disagreements about euthanasia. We argue about what to do, about the spirit in which to do it and even about what is at issue. The Good Death Through Time deepens our understanding of these aspects of our current debates and therefore helps us to establish a critical distance from which to think about them.”
RAIMOND GAITA
“Beautifully written, this book deftly probes the cultural history of what it means to die well in the west. Its compelling insights into the evolution of euthanasia will see The Good Death Through Time take its place on bookshelves alongside studies of dying from the Victorian era to the present.”
HELEN MACDONALD, AUTHOR, HUMAN REMAINS AND POSSESSING THE DEAD
Feature
★Written by award-winning historian, educator and author Caitlin Mahar! Recommended by The Guardian, ABC National Radio, The Age, BOOKS + PUBLISHING and more media platforms.
★With insights into the historical and cultural origins of death, pain, and euthanasia, and into how activists, doctors, lawyers, and the general public think and feel about the development of palliative medicine in the context of modern medical perceptions, this book provides a welcome and empathetic understanding and examination of this challenging and worrying issue.