The spirit ambulance : choreographing the end of life in Thailand
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The spirit ambulance : choreographing the end of life in Thailand
（California series in public anthropology, 49）
University of California Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-181) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Jandi: The Spirit Ambulance
Arirat: Facing the Karma Master
Introduction: Choreographing the End of Life
1. Paying the Debt of Life
2. The Spirit Ambulance Buddhadasa: Problematizing Death 3. The New End of Life
4. Karma Masters
Coda
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