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Vol 4 No 4: New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

Death as resource: A story of organ donation and communication across the ‘great mist’ in Iceland

  • Arnar Árnason
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.460
Submitted
November 16, 2016
Published
November 6, 2020

Abstract

Social scientific and humanities accounts of death have long spoken of the medicalisation of death in contemporary societies, particularly Western ones. According to these arguments, modern medicine treats death as a failure to be avoided. This special is