Comfort of People

Comfort of People

AngličtinaMäkká väzba
Miller, Daniel
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
EAN: 9781509524327
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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.

EAN 9781509524327
ISBN 1509524320
Typ produktu Mäkká väzba
Vydavateľ John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Dátum vydania 29. septembra 2017
Stránky 236
Jazyk English
Rozmery 196 x 130 x 20
Krajina United Kingdom
Autori Miller, Daniel
Edícia 1. Auflage