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Mara Buchbinder Scripting Death (Hardback). Author: Mara Buchbinder. This unprecedented, in-depth account uses the case of assisted death as an entry point into ongoing cultural conversations about the changing landscape of death and dying in the United States. Further DetailsTitle: Scripting Death Condition: New Format: Hardback Author: Mara Buchbinder Subtitle: Stories of Assisted Dying in America ISBN-10: 0520380207 EAN: 9780520380202 ISBN: 9780520380202 Publisher: University of California Press Release Date: 05/04/2021 Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Language: English Description: How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice. Sociological studies of new health policies have repeatedly demonstrated that the realities often fall short of advocacy visions, raising questions about how much choice and control aid-in-dying actually affords. Scripting Death chronicles two years of ethnographic research documenting the implementation of Vermont’s 2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act. Author Mara Buchbinder weaves together stories collected from patients, caregivers, health care providers, activists, and legislators to illustrate how they navigate aid-in-dying as a new medical frontier in the aftermath of legalization. Scripting Death explains how medical aid-in-dying works, what motivates people to pursue it, and ultimately, why upholding the “right to die” is very different from ensuring access to this life-ending procedure. This unprecedented, in-depth account uses the case of assisted death as an entry point into ongoing cultural conversations about the changing landscape of death and dying in the United States. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Series: California Series in Public Anthropology Item Width: 28mm Item Weight: 544g Release Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
