This book explores the "dry tree" as a profound symbol of death, examining its cultural, philosophical, and artistic representations throughout history. From ancient mythologies to modern literature and art, the dry tree appears as a powerful image representing desolation, transformation, and the end of life cycles. Through a blend of literary analysis and visual interpretation, this work seeks…
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience—it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all—and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about id…
"A short, accessible book on issues of death and dying from the perspective of the medical professions"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Description based upon print version of record."An argument against the "Wise View" of death that it is an inevitable and acceptable part of life"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying. Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission. Lofland identifies, critiques, and theorizes 1970s dea…
"Original Italian edition: ?2018 Bollati Boringhiere editore, Torino"--Title page verso."An extended essay exploring how modern digital culture-especially social media-has changed our understanding and experience of death, memory and grieving"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically encoded, active process which results in the death of individual cells, tissues, or whole organs. PCD plays an essential role in plant development and defense, and occurs throughout a plant’s lifecycle from the death of the embryonic suspensor to leaf and floral organ senescence. In plant biology, PCD is a relatively new research area, however, as …
Sensory hair cells are the specialized mechanosensory receptors found in vertebrate auditory, vestibular, and lateral line organs that transduce vibratory and acoustic stimuli into the sensations of hearing and balance. Hair cells can be damaged due to such factors as agin g, ototoxic chemicals, acoustic trauma, infection, or genetic factors. Loss of hese hair cells lead to deficits in hea…