Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-210) and indexes.
Contents
Living too Long? -- Death by Demography and Longevity -- Death by Social Obligation: The Political Economy Thesis -- Death by Attrition: Modernisation and the Workhouse -- Death by Degrees: Bureaucratisation in Care Institutions -- Death in Literary Discourse -- Death by Choice?: Physician-assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia -- Dr Shipman, Social Rights, and Preventing Geronticide.