Scripting Death
stories of assisted dying in america
$69.78
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2025
Summary
Scripting Death: A Critique of UK Post-Compulsory Education Policy
This book offers a comprehensive account of post-compulsory education and training policy in the UK since 1944. It challenges the reader and policy makers to think differently about how to design and implement more successful skills policies in the future.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520425194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520425197 |
| Series: | California Series in Public Anthropology |
| Author: | Mara Buchbinder |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 228mm |
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Critics Review
“A beautifully written, thought-provoking ethnography that traces how patients, family caregivers, health care providers, activists, and legislators navigate this new world in which MAID is a legal option… . This book is essential reading for courses on death and dying, health care, and bioethics and will be eye-opening for those caring for terminally ill loved ones or grappling with their own life-or-death decisions… . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *
“Buchbinder offers a compelling introduction to the complexity and inconsistency of ethical stances around life and death decision-making. In addition, she calls attention to the danger of reducing the forms of personhood and sociality produced through impending death to individual autonomy. And she shows the heart-wrenching consequences of unequal access to information and care in the United States. Scripting Death is a wonderful introduction to a pressing social issue.”
* Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“”Buchbinder’s work is the latest of several highly accessible health related ethnographies that represent a resurgence of anthropology in which real people talk rather than ‘discourse,’ questions are asked rather than ‘interrogated,’ and the term ‘reinscribe’ does not appear. A welcome development.” * The Hastings Center Report *“Scripting Death provides a rich collection of Vermont stories about the challenges of organizing medical aid in dying, which serve as a microcosm of the broader problems faced by Americans in gaining access to health care.” * Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law *“As a work in public anthropology, the text is readable and accessible, taking up what people say about assisted dying as a contemporary cultural form, and as a normatively charged endeavor.” * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *About The Author
Mara Buchbinder
Mara Buchbinder is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain and coauthor of Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening.
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