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The Contemporary Deathbed

The Ultimate Rush

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. John Anthony Tercier
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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 1-5

  3. The Paradigms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Death-with-Dignity: The Fantasy

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 9-23

    3. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: The Protocol

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 24-48

    4. The Royal Humane Society: The Method

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 49-94

  4. The Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Defibrillation: Scintilla Vitalis

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 97-123

    3. Mouth-to-Mouth: The Lips of a Corpse

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 124-153

    4. External Cardiac Compression: Beating a Dead Horse

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 154-186

  5. The Fantasies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. The Media: Getting it Right?

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 189-218

    3. Conclusion: Modern Living/Modern Dying

      • John Anthony Tercier
      Pages 219-244

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 245-297
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About this book

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.

About the author

JOHN TERCIER is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. He is an emergency medicine specialist and cultural historian and has practised and taught in Canada, the USA, the UK and the Middle East. His continuing research examines the influence of the media on medical practice.

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