The Circle of Life

PD Dr. Florian Greiner; Dr. Michael Zok

doi:10.5771/9783988580641

Summary

In modern societies, secularisation, scientification, and rationalisation have had a major impact on systems of beliefs as well as everyday life. These processes influenced the meaning of liminality and rites of passage that are subject to public discourses and political, ethical, medical or legal decisions. Since the early twentieth century they were at the centre of controversial debates, particularly with a focus on the beginning and the end of life that point to central insecurities of every society: What does human life mean? How do we define its borders? Where do we come from? And where do we head to? This interdisciplinary volume traces the history of this discourse – and its implications for today. With contributions byMarina Bantiou | Anna Bauer | Thorsten Benkel | P. Boopathi | Julia Dornhöfer | Christoph Egen | Eric Benjamin Franklin | Florian Greiner | Christoph Gutenbrunner | Luisa Klatte | Wiebke Lisner | Anne Ostermann | Cornelia Weiß | Michael Zok

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-98858-063-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-98858-064-1
Publisher: Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden
Series: Thanatologische Studien | Thanatological Studies
Volume: 4
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
Florian Greiner, Michael Zok Download chapter (PDF)
1. Structure of the Book
2. References
Christoph Egen, Cornelia Weiss, Christoph Gutenbrunner, Anne Ostermann Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction and Background
2. PND and PGD as treatments of prevention
3. Conclusion
4. References
Wiebke Lisner Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction: Pregnancies as a liminal stage of life and death at the center of Nazi biopolitics
2. Pregnancies: Perceptions and Choices
3. Abortions: Biopolitical Goals and the Politics of Germanization
4. Detecting Abortions: Denunciations and Investigations
5. Prosecution Practices
6. Conclusions
7. References
Marina Bantiou Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. The Impact of Ceausescu’s Pronatalist Policies on Reproductive Rights
4. Consequences of the Decree: Children in Orphanages and State Institutions
5. Epilogue
6. References
Luisa Klatte Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction
2. Controversies around § 218
3. Liberal handling in post-war Germany
4. Nation-building and motherhood
5. Internal and External Pressures for Liberalization
6. Abortion in GDR’s civil rights movements
7. Abortion during German reunification
8. Conclusion
9. References
Michael Zok Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction
2. Some background
3. »Little Human Beings«. The Catholic Church, the Beginning of Life and the Absence of Liminality
4. Legal Debates and Distribution of Believes
5. Two Sides of the Coin: Abortion and Euthanasia
6. Social Consequences and the Question of Nation
7. Conclusion: The Liminal Stage That Was Not
8. References
Thorsten Benkel Download chapter (PDF)
1. Disappearance
2. Reappearance
3. Science and art
4. References
Julia Dornhöfer Download chapter (PDF)
1. Taboo or not Taboo?
2. 1. Living Wills in Germany
  2. The Emergency Case as a Liminal Period
  3. Missed out Conversations about the End of Life
3. Conclusion: Think Liminal and Break the Death Taboo!
4. References
Anna Bauer Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction
2. Analysis of Actor Constellations
3. 1. 1. What does the friend say?
    2. What does the physician say?
    3. What does the hospice manager say?
    4. What do the nurses say?
    5. What does the hospice resident say?
  2. 1. What does the chief physician say?
    2. What do the other physicians say?
    3. What does the nurse say?
    4. What does the physiotherapist say?
4. 1. Summary of the two cases
  2. Distributed ›death brokering‹
5. Conclusion – Liminality and the Transfiguration of Agony
6. References
P. Boopathi Download chapter (PDF)
1. Introduction
2. Historical Views on Death in India
3. Euthanasia Debate in India
4. The Case of Aruna Shanbaug
5. Religious Implications
6. Legal Implications
7. Ethical Implications
8. The Present Situation
9. Conclusion
10. References
Eric Benjamin Franklin Download chapter (PDF)
1. The emergence of national criminal codes in the nineteenth century
2. The second half of the twentieth century
3. Formalizing the status quo versus legalizing mercy killing
4. Conclusion
5. References
AuthorsPages 233 - 234 Download chapter (PDF)