DEATH’ S SUMMER COAT: WHAT THE HISTORY OF DEATH AND DYING TEACHES US ABOUT LIFE AND LIVING
Book ID/图书代码： 13000514B73949
English Summary/英文概要： Death is an expected part of life, but in the past 150 years our approach to it has changed dramatically. We today live in a culture dead-set against talking about mortality. Death has become the enemy of medicine, to be fought at all costs. And our disavowal of death’s naturalness makes it harder to grieve properly – quite apart from the fact that we have few mourning rituals left anyway.
What drove us to sanitise death and make it foreign and unfamiliar? In Death’s Summer Coat, Brandy Schillace, a prominent medical-humanities scholar and member of the growing popular ’death movement’, addresses these questions by looking at how different cultures have approached death historically. Some of the stories she tells are strikingly unfamiliar – sometimes humorous, sometimes horrific. Others are far more familiar than you might suppose. From ‘sky burial’ (feeding the dead to birds of prey) to ‘necro-cannibalism’ (eating the dead yourself), she shows how our responses to death are incredibly diverse – and sometimes just plain incredible.
But her book is more than just a popular history. It is also a call for the breaking of taboos and the reclaiming of lost ground surrounding death, tapping into a spirit of change shown by the growing number of people who are sipping tea at ‘death cafes’, attending ‘death salons’, and visiting museum exhibitions and art installations on the subject.
Drawing on science, history, literature and previously unpublished photographs of the recently dead, Death’s Summer Coat shatters the silence of our mortality and takes a closer look at our final destination.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 死亡是人生中必定要经历的阶段，然而，在过去的150年里，我们看待死亡的态度却发生了巨大的变化。如今，我们的文化不愿意探讨死亡，死亡成了医学的敌人，我们不惜一切代价对抗死亡。
是什么让我们畏惧死亡、令死亡变得如此陌生？在《死亡的夏衣》一书中，作者Brandy Schillace，著名医学人文学者，通过探寻历史上不同文化对于死亡的不同态度解答了这些问题。其中有些故事对我们来说是完全陌生的，有些十分有趣，有些则显得恐怖。另一些故事则比我们想象的要熟悉。作者展现了我们对于死亡的回应是如此多种多样——其中有些甚至不可思议。
但是，这本书不仅仅只是历史科普读物，它也是对打破禁忌的呼吁。《死亡的夏衣》通过借鉴科学、历史、文学以及最近过世的人的未公开照片，打破了死亡的寂静，深度剖析了人类的最终宿命。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：“生动形象，充满学术气息，又十分感人。《死亡的夏衣》将这些元素巧妙地结合在一起。”——Rupert Callender，编辑
“本书针对我们对于死亡和垂死的不同态度提供了生动、全面的介绍，提出了基本问题，展现了重要的解析。”——Bess Lovejoy，作者
“这是一本很棒的书，语言优美。我读完以后，又读了一遍，把重要的地方都标记了出来……作者Brandy Schillace从头至尾都在探讨关于死亡的沉重的话题。”—— Katherine Sleema博士，临床讲师
“作者的学术剖析与历史分析显而易见，而她在作品中所展现出的人文主义精神也同样令人印象深刻。正是客观的分析与个性化的风格另这本书可读性很强。”——Richard Littledale
"Vivid, scholarly, enthralling and surprisingly touching, Death’s Summer Coat is skilfully stitched together." --Rupert Callender, editor of The Natural Death Handbook
"A lively, panoramic view of our approach to death and dying that asks essential questions, and offers important insights, into the inevitable." --Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest in Pieces
"This is a delightful book. Beautifully written, and so crammed with fascinating insights that after I’d finished it I went through it again with my highlighter pen, in an attempt not to forget any of it. Throughout, Brandy Schillace covers the heaviest of subjects with the lightest touch. Death’s Summer Coat is an essential read for anyone interested in how present day humans deal with mortality." -- Dr Katherine Sleeman, ehospice.com
"This is a delightful book. Beautifully written, and so crammed with fascinating insights that after I’d finished it I went through it again with my highlighter pen, in an attempt not to forget any of it ... Throughout, Brandy Schillace covers the heaviest of subjects with the lightest touch." -- Dr Katherine Sleeman, Clinical Lecturer, Cicely Saunders Institute, King s College London
"The book ends as it began with an epilogue that is deeply personal and by the end of the work Schillace does feel a like someone you might have chatted with at a death-positive event. With its high readability factor, I am sure Death’s Summer Coat will prove highly popular with Death Salon and Death café attendees." -- Dr. Christina Welch, Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University blog
"Her academic acumen and historical analysis is plain for every reader to see, but so is her warm humanity. [...] The mixture of the analytical and the personal is part of what makes the book so readable." -- Richard Littledale, The Preacher’s Blog
"A lovely book ... inspired by the Death Café movement" -- Lis Horwich, DeathCafe.com
About the Author/作者介绍： Brandy Schillace博士撰写有关文化、医学历史以及医学和文学交织的著作。她现任Dittrick医学历史中心研究员兼客座策展人，同时担任《国际健康杂志》“文化、医学与精神病学板块”常务编辑。此外，她还在俄亥俄州凯斯西储大学SAGES学院任教，并曾在曼彻斯特大学、都柏林大学学院以及纽约医学院的科学、技术与医学历史中心担任讲师。她为多家期刊供稿，其中包括《赫芬顿邮报》。Dr. Brandy Schillace writes about culture, the history of medicine, and the intersections of medicine and literature. She is Research Associate, guest curator, and public engagement for the Dittrick Medical History Center and Managing Editor of the international health journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. She teaches for the SAGES department at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and has lectured at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, the University College of Dublin, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She writes for The Huffington Post and InsideHigherEd, among other publications.
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