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Publisher: University of California Press. Number of Pages: 221. Weight: 0.67 lbs. Publication Date: 2004-09-06. ISBN13: 9780520243248.

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The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die"--initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. This new claim rested on two seemingly irrefutable propositions: first, that death can be a positive good for individuals whose suffering has become intolerable; and second, that death is an inevitable and therefore morally neutral biological event. Death Is That Man Taking Names suggests, however, that a contrary attitude persists in our culture--that death is inherently evil, not just in practical but also in moral terms. The new ethos of rational self-control cannot refute but can only unsuccessfully try to suppress this contrary attitude. The inevitable failure of this suppressive effort provokes ambivalence and clouds rational judgment in many people's minds and paradoxically leads to inflictions of terrible suffering on terminally ill people. Judicial reforms in the 1970s of abortion and capital punishment were driven by similarly high valuations of rationality and public decision-making--rejecting physician control over abortion in favor of individual self-control by pregnant women and subjecting unsupervised jury decisions for capital punishment to supposed rationally guided supervision by judges. These reforms also attempt to suppress persistently ambivalent attitudes toward death, and are therefore prone to inflicting unjustified suffering on pregnant women and death-sentenced prisoners. In this profound and subtle account of psychological and social forces underlying American cultural attitudes toward death, Robert A. Burt maintains that unacknowledged ambivalence is likely to undermine the beneficent goals of post-1970s reforms and harm the very people these changes were intended to help.

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University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520243242
ISBN-13
9780520243248
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Author
Robert A. Burt
Publication Name
Death Is That Man Taking Names : Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Series
California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz

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Series Volume Number
7
Lc Classification Number
2001007071
Table of Content
I. I Fear No Evil: Pursuing the Good Death II. I Walk through Shadows: Hidden Death III. In the Presence of My Enemies: Death at War IV. Lead Me in Paths of Righteousness: Judges and Death V. They Comfort Me: Doctors and Death VI. He Makes Me Lie Down: Choosing Death VII. Surely Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow: The Death Penalty VIII. All the Days of My Life Notes
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Death & Dying, Jurisprudence, Terminal Care, History
Lccn
2001-007071
Dewey Decimal
306.9
Dewey Edition
21
Genre
Law, Medical, Social Science

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