{"product_id":"the-craft-of-dying-40th-anniversary-edition-isbn-9780262537346","title":"The Craft of Dying, 40th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's \u003ci\u003eThe Craft of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e begins to repair this omission. Lofland identifies, critiques, and theorizes 1970s death movements, including the Death Acceptance Movement, the Death with Dignity Movement, and the Natural Death movement. All these groups attempted to transform death into a “positive experience,” anticipating much of today's death and dying activism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLofland turns a sociologist's eye on the era's increased interest in death, considering, among other things, the components of the modern “face of death” and the “craft of dying,” the construction of a dying role or identity by those who are dying, and the constraints on their freedom to do this. Lofland wrote just before the AIDS epidemic transformed the landscape of death and dying in the West; many of the trends she identified became the building blocks of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. \u003ci\u003eThe Craft of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e will help readers understand contemporary death social movements' historical relationships to questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality and is a book that everyone interested in end-of-life politics should read.\u003c\/p\u003eLyn H. Lofland is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Troyer is Director of the Centre for Death and Society and Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. He grew up in the American funeral industry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAra A. Francis is Associate Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the College of the Holy Cross.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304379666661,"sku":"NP9780262537346","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262537346.jpg?v=1767738859","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-craft-of-dying-40th-anniversary-edition-isbn-9780262537346","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}