OTHER DEATHS: CURRENT POPULAR THANATOLOGICAL LITERATURE

• Authors: Kubiak A. E.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress discusses the thanatological trends in current culture (mainly literature but also films and drama) which break the taboo surrounding death. The first part of the article describes the current approach to death. The second part presents - in her opinion - the new trends. These cover the following areas - descriptions of experiences of clinical death; the far-eastern attitudes to death; psychotherapeutic death; the diary of dying; the euthanasia debate.

Keywords

EN

DEATH; EUTHANASIA; THANATOLOGY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 169-187
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kubiak A. E.

• A. E. Kubiak, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03056266