Comfort of People Miller Daniel
Comfort of People Miller Daniel At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of…
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Comfort of People Miller Daniel
At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. It focuses on the comfort given by friends, carers and relatives through both face-to-face relations and, increasingly, online communication. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice, Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community, friendship, and kinship, but also loneliness and isolation.This is a book about people's lives, not their deaths: about the hospice patients rather than the hospice.
Miller asks whether the loneliness and isolation he uncovers is the result of a decline of English patterns of socialising, or their
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