Death as resource: A story of organ donation and communication across the ‘great mist’ in Iceland

Social scientific and humanities accounts of death have long spoken of the medicalisation of death in contemporary societies, particularly Western ones. According to these arguments, modern medicine treats death as a failure to be avoided. This special is

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Published in:Medicine Anthropology Theory
Main Author: Arnar Árnason
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2020
Subjects:
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grief
iceland
organ donation
taboo
phil
hist
Iceland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.460
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