The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush PDF
312 Pages·2005·0.892 MB·Language, Discourse, Society
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How do we picture ourselves dying? A ''death with dignity''--the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights-flashing, siren-wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust vehicles of popular culture: film and television, have opted for the latter scenario. This book examines the high-tech death of the twenty-first century as enacted in our hospitals and portrayed on our TV screens.
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