Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 9-23-2009
Journal / Book Title
Science as Culture
Abstract
Browse through your local bookstore, or glance at a nearby movie marquee. Skim the pages of your nightly newspaper or the listings in your television guide. American culture's current focus poses a surprise. The popular eye is centered on a topic more taboo than the steamiest sexual encounter, more solemn than the deepest economic depression, and more universal than the common cold. The current decade reveals a remarkable up- surge in our collective attention toward death. Indeed in the 1990s, Americans have become nearly obsessed with a world that lurks beyond life as we know it.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09505439709526477
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
ISSN: 0950-5431
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Cerulo, Karen and Ruane, Janet M., "Death comes alive; technology and the re‐conception of death" (2009). Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 6.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/sociology-facpubs/6
Published Citation
Karen A. Cerulo & Janet M. Ruane (1997) Death comes alive; technology and the re‐conception of death, Science as Culture, 6:3, 444-466, DOI: 10.1080/09505439709526477
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