The Spirit Ambulance : Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
California Series in Public Anthropology
ISBN-10
0520343905
ISBN-13
9780520343900
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 25th, 2020
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
292 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 22.70 x 1.50 cms
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The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a “debt of life” to their elders through intensive medical care, followed by a medically assisted rush from the hospital to home to ensure a spiritually advantageous last breath. The result is a powerful exploration of the nature of death and the complexities arising from the globalization of biomedical expertise and ethics around the world.
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