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Fragile lives

by Beverley McNamara

2001 165 pages eng

A sensitively observed ethnographic account of the experience of terminal illness and care.Death is inevitable, yet we often behave as if we will live forever. So when we meet someone who is dying, their fragility is a sharp and often unwelcome reminder of our own mortality. How does this affect the…

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