Books Details
Author : Scott Stonington Pages : 208 pages Publisher : University of California
Press Language : ISBN-10 : 0520343905 ISBN-13 : 9780520343900
Books Descriptions
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. ?
