Death in Old Age: How a Pandemic Makes Us Rethink Mortality - Couverture souple

Misztal, Barbara A.

 
9781800790025: Death in Old Age: How a Pandemic Makes Us Rethink Mortality
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1800790023 ISBN 13 : 9781800790025
Editeur : Peter Lang, 2023

Synopsis

The book examines the issue of old age in death in Western societies in the pre-Covid-19 era and during the pandemic. It aims to prompt rethinking of societal obligations to the aged and to reflect on ways of handling death in old age. It offers a platform to debate society’s responsibility to the old and to reflect on the legacy of the pandemic.

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À propos de l?auteur

Barbara A. Misztal is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of Leicester, where she has taught from 2002. After finishing her MA in Sociology at University of Warsaw, and PhD in Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, her first teaching experience was at University of California, Riverside, where she also spent her postdoctoral year. After that she worked at Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw, and between 1990 and 2002 at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She is interested in sociological theory, with the main focus being on problems of trust, informality, dignity, forgiveness, vulnerability, normality and memory. Her recent research focus on the significance of literary sources in older people's search for narratives that make sense of life. She is the author of several books, including Later life: Exploring the Experience of Ageing Through Literature (2020), Multiple Normalities: making sense of ways of living (2015), The Challenges of Vulnerability (2011), Intellectuals and the Public Good. Creativity and Courage (2007), Theories of Social Remembering (2003), Informality: Social Theory and Contemporary Practice (2000), Trust in Modern Societies (1996), Action on AIDS. National Policies in Comparative Perspective (edited with D. Moss, 1990).

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Éditeur
Peter Lang
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1800790023
ISBN 13 
9781800790025
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
316
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Personne responsable
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