Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life

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Label

Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life

Title remainder

Japanese culture and choice at the end of life

Statement of responsibility

Susan Orpett Long

Creator

• Long, Susan Orpett

Subject

• Death -- Social aspects -- Japan
• Electronic books
• Ethnopsychologie -- Japon
• Ethnopsychology
• Ethnopsychology -- Japan
• Japan
• Japan
• Japan
• Japan
• Keuzes
• Kultur
• Death -- Social aspects
• Life and death, Power over
• Malades en phase terminale -- Japon
• Mort -- Aspect social -- Japon
• Pouvoir sur la vie et la mort
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
• Sterven
• Terminally ill
• Terminally ill -- Japan
• Tod
• Volkenpsychologie
• Life and death, Power over

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"Final Days represents a new perspective on end-of-life decision-making, arguing that culture does make a difference but not as a checklist of customs or as the source of a moral code. The final stage of life is as rooted as any other in political and economic constraints and social relationships. Policy, technology, and institutions - as well as biology - set limits on what is possible, defining the set of options from which people choose. Culture provides a vocabulary of words, metaphors, and images that can be drawn on to interpret experiences and create a sense of what it means to die well." "Grounded in ethnographic data, the book offers an examination of how policy and meaning frame the choices Japanese make about how to die. As an essay in descriptive bioethics, it engages an extensive literature in the social sciences and bioethics to examine some of the answers people have constructed to end-of-life issues. Like their counterparts in other postindustrial societies, Japanese find no simple way of handling situations such as disclosure of diagnosis, discontinuing or withholding treatment, organ donation, euthanasia, and hospice. Through interviews and case studies in hospitals and homes, Susan Orpett Long offers a window on the ways in which "ordinary" people respond to serious illness and the process of dying."--Jacket

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

OCLCE

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Language note

In English

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography