This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes. In documenting a range of customs and practices pertaining to death, dying and the afterlife among the diverse ethnic com
Death and Dying in India
โ Scribed by Suhita Chopra Chatterjee; Jaydeep Sengupta
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 172
- Series
- Routledge Contemporary South Asia
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Poverty of dying in India: a comparative landscape
2 Dying in the homeland
3 Are Indian hospitals good places for the dying elderly?
4 The rhetoric of dying in home
5 Is palliative care the answer to care for the dying elderly in India?
6 The failing empirics of biomedicine in dying matters
7 End-of-life care: Retrieving death from the zone of obscurity
Index
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