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The Comfort of People

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ISBN/EAN: 9781509524358
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 236 S., 0.64 MB
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2017
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Beschreibung

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice, Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community, friendship, and kinship, but also loneliness and isolation. This is a book about people's lives, not their deaths: about the hospice patients rather than the hospice. It focuses on the comfort given by friends, carers and relatives through both face-to-face relations and, increasingly, online communication. Miller asks whether the loneliness and isolation he uncovers is the result of a decline of English patterns of socialising, or their continuation. This moving and deeply humane book combines warmth and sharp observation with anthropological insight and practical suggestions for the use of media by the hospice. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, social policy and media and cultural studies, but also to healthcare professionals and, indeed, to anyone who would like to know more about the role of relationships in the final stage of our lives.

Autorenportrait

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionStory 1) SarahStory 2) Champneys for the TerminalStory 3) The Curse Of ConfidentialityStory 4) Parkinson?sStory 5) Four FriendsStory 6) Betty and GloriaStory 7) Tom, Dick and Robin RigbyStory 8) My Fair LadyStory 9) MaypoleStory 10) Control CentreStory 11) Our ForumStory 12) DepressionStory 13) CommunityStory 14) BluebellsStory 15) The Intimacy Of StrangersStory 16) The Silent CommunityStory 17) In This RoomStory 18) MattConclusionsRecommendations for Hospice Use of New MediaBibliography

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