Overview
- Provides a unique interdisciplinary and scholarly approach to central issues involved in the study of death
- Brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous
- Uses the best, and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 62)
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About this book
This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous. By using the best and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics, it develops a framework for understanding both what death is – which requires a great deal of time spent developing definitions of the various types of identity-in-the-moment and identity-over-time – and the values involved in death. This pragmatic framework answers questions about why death is a form of loss; why we experience the emotional reactions, feelings and desires that we do; which of these reactions, feelings and desires are justified and which are not; if we can survive death and how; whether our deaths can harm us; and why and how we should prepare for death. Thanks to the pragmatic framework employed, the answers to the various questions are more likely to be accurate and acceptable than those with less rigorous scholarly underpinnings or which deal with utopian worlds.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework
Authors: Dennis R. Cooley
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7264-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7263-1Published: 01 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0672-6Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7264-8Published: 22 June 2015
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 311
Topics: Ethics, Neurosciences, Health Psychology