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100 1 $aLong, Susan Orpett.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85258831
245 10 $aFinal days :$bJapanese culture and choice at the end of life /$cSusan Orpett Long.
260 $aHonolulu :$bUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axi, 287 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-278) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tCulture and choice at the end of life -- $g2.$tAnthropology and the study of dying -- $g3.$tStructuring the options for dying : Japan as a postindustrial society -- $g4.$tMetaphors and scripts for the good death -- $g5.$tWho decides? : social roles and relationships -- $g6.$tDeciding to treat or not to treat -- $g7.$tLife-and-death decisions and cultural stereotypes -- $g8.$tNew scripts and culture change -- $g9.$tChoice and the creation of a meaningful death.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects$zJapan.
650 0 $aTerminally ill$zJapan.
650 0 $aLife and death, Power over.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076811
650 0 $aEthnopsychology$zJapan.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005010226.html
852 00 $beal$hHQ1073.5.J3$iL65 2005