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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Mortality
Chapter 1. Terminality: Technoscientific Eschatology in the Anthropocene by Abou Farman
Chapter 2. Old Men, Young Blood: Transhumanism and the Promise and Peril of Immortality by Jenny Huberman
Chapter 3. A Responsible Death: Valuing Life from Mortality Tables to Wearables by Tamara Kneese
Chapter 4. Deathnography: Writing, Reading, and Radical Mourning by Casey Golomski
Chapter 5. "For the One Life We Have": Temporalities of the Hhumanist Funeral in Britain by Matthew Engelke
Interlude: Notes from the Field
Chapter 6. Loss in/of Business Black Funerals by Lashaya Howie
Chapter 7. Cuddling Death: Exploring the Materiality of Reproductive Loss by Stephanie Schiavenato
Part 2. Death Care
Chapter 8. The Haptics of Grief: A Taxonomy of Touch in Death Care by Margaret Schwartz
Chapter 9. The Embalmer's Magic by Shannon Lee Dawdy
Chapter 10. To Bear a Corpse: Home Funerals and Epistemic Cultures in US Death Care by Philip R. Olson
Chapter 11. Making a Living from Death: Chinese State Funeral Workers under the Market Economy by Huwy-Min Lucia Liu
Chapter 12. Grief Transformed: New Rituals in a Singaporean Chinese Funeral Parlor by Ruth E. Toulson
On Endings
Commentary: The New Death by Ellen Badone
Afterword: Atoms, Star Dust, and Fungi Death and Secular Eschatologies by Anya Bernstein
References
List of Contributors
Index.
Half title
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Mortality
Chapter 1. Terminality: Technoscientific Eschatology in the Anthropocene by Abou Farman
Chapter 2. Old Men, Young Blood: Transhumanism and the Promise and Peril of Immortality by Jenny Huberman
Chapter 3. A Responsible Death: Valuing Life from Mortality Tables to Wearables by Tamara Kneese
Chapter 4. Deathnography: Writing, Reading, and Radical Mourning by Casey Golomski
Chapter 5. "For the One Life We Have": Temporalities of the Hhumanist Funeral in Britain by Matthew Engelke
Interlude: Notes from the Field
Chapter 6. Loss in/of Business Black Funerals by Lashaya Howie
Chapter 7. Cuddling Death: Exploring the Materiality of Reproductive Loss by Stephanie Schiavenato
Part 2. Death Care
Chapter 8. The Haptics of Grief: A Taxonomy of Touch in Death Care by Margaret Schwartz
Chapter 9. The Embalmer's Magic by Shannon Lee Dawdy
Chapter 10. To Bear a Corpse: Home Funerals and Epistemic Cultures in US Death Care by Philip R. Olson
Chapter 11. Making a Living from Death: Chinese State Funeral Workers under the Market Economy by Huwy-Min Lucia Liu
Chapter 12. Grief Transformed: New Rituals in a Singaporean Chinese Funeral Parlor by Ruth E. Toulson
On Endings
Commentary: The New Death by Ellen Badone
Afterword: Atoms, Star Dust, and Fungi Death and Secular Eschatologies by Anya Bernstein
References
List of Contributors
Index.