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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Death"
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War Remains; Mediations Of Suffering And Death In The Era Of The World Wars
CronqvistMarieLinaSturfelt

War Remains is an interdisciplinary anthology dealing with the mediations and sense-making narratives of war deaths and suffering in the era of the world wars. In the first half of the 20th century, more than 120 million people died an untimely or violent death – on the battlefield, in concentration camps, through fierce air strikes or as casualties of the many epidemics and hardships that fo…

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9789187675818
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Pandemic disease in the medieval world: rethinking the Black Death
Green, Monica HelenSymes, Carol

This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism (Yersinia pestis) can allow a rethinking of the Black Death pandemic and its larger historical significance.

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9781942401018
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xx, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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Medieval globe ; v. 1
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614.4 PAN p
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Teaching ethics in organ transplantation and tissue donation - cases and movies
Schicktanz, SilkeWiesemann, Claudia,Wöhlke, Sabine,Carmi, Amnon,

Organ transplantation is a thrilling new option for modern surgery giving hope for chronically ill patients, and, at the same time, stirring controversial ethical questions on human identity and the meaning of the human body. Being a global and transnational endeavor, organ transplantation raises universal ethical concerns and, yet, has to be adapted to culturally mediated believes. In this boo…

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9783941875401
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88p.
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174. 297954 TEA t
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and its timings : when is death?
McCorristine, Shane

This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we know if someone is dead or not? What do people ex…

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9781137583284
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xv, 167p. : ill.
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306.9 INT i