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The Spirit Ambulance
Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
Scott Stonington
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Spirit Ambulance
Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
Scott Stonington
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Jandi: The Spirit Ambulance
- Arirat: Facing the Karma Master
- Introduction: Choreographing the End of Life
- 1. Paying the Debt of Life
- 2. The Spirit Ambulance
- Buddhadasa: Problematizing Death
- 3. The New End of Life
- 4. Karma Masters
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index