Title: The contemporary deathbed : the ultimate rush /
Authors: Tercier, John Anthony, 1953-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: CPR (First aid) Social aspects.; Death.; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Attitude to Death; Resuscitation history; Television; MEDICAL Pathology.; MEDICAL Pathophysiology.; Culture Study and teaching.; Ethnology; Literature; Literature Philosophy; Medicine; Religion and culture; History of medicine.; Films, cinema.; Television.; Popular culture.; Health and Fitness.
Abstract: How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the two most robust vehicles of popular culture: film and television, have opted for the latter scenario. This book examines the hi-tech death of the twenty-first century as enacted in our hospitals and as portrayed on our TV screens.