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Spirit Ambulance

Scott Stonington
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      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.  
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Scott Stonington EAN: 9780520343894 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 318 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-08-25 CITY: GENRE: MEDICAL / Ethics, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology: death and dying, Social and cultural anthropology, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Health systems and services, Buddhism, Popular medicine and health

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      Scott Stonington, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.  
      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.  
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Scott Stonington EAN: 9780520343894 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 318 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-08-25 CITY: GENRE: MEDICAL / Ethics, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology: death and dying, Social and cultural anthropology, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Health systems and services, Buddhism, Popular medicine and health

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      Scott Stonington, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.  

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