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Birth and death : experience, ethics, politics / Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward.

By: Woodward, Kath [author.]Contributor(s): Woodward, Sophie [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351212632; 135121263X; 9781351212618; 1351212613; 9781351212625; 1351212621; 9781351212601; 1351212605Subject(s): Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects | Childbirth -- Social aspects | Death -- Social aspects | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / GeneralDDC classification: 305.2 LOC classification: HQ519Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement

Contents:

Sheila Kitzinger: a life in birth and a good death -- Personal and social -- Visibility and visualisation -- Public and private: rituals and routines -- The medical and the natural: embodied selves -- Crossing boundaries: ethics and experience -- Giving birth, dying and mostly, living

Summary: "Usually conceived in opposition to each other - birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending - this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living. Written by two authors, this book takes an intergenerational approach to highlight the connections and disconnections between birth and death; adopting a relational approach allows the book to explore birth and death through the key relationships that constitute them: personal and social, private and public, the affective and social norms, the actual and the virtual and the ordinary and profound. Of interest to academics and students in the fields of feminism, phenomenology and the life course, the book will also be of relevance to policy makers in the areas of birth activism and end of life care. Drawing from personal stories and everyday life and publicly contested examples the book will also be of interest to a more general readership as it engages with questions we all at some point will grapple with"-- Provided by publisher.

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"Usually conceived in opposition to each other - birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending - this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living. Written by two authors, this book takes an intergenerational approach to highlight the connections and disconnections between birth and death; adopting a relational approach allows the book to explore birth and death through the key relationships that constitute them: personal and social, private and public, the affective and social norms, the actual and the virtual and the ordinary and profound. Of interest to academics and students in the fields of feminism, phenomenology and the life course, the book will also be of relevance to policy makers in the areas of birth activism and end of life care. Drawing from personal stories and everyday life and publicly contested examples the book will also be of interest to a more general readership as it engages with questions we all at some point will grapple with"-- Provided by publisher.

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