Life Sentences: The Modern Ordering of Mortality
ISBN: 9781442688490
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention.


Bayatrizi Zohreh :

Zohreh Bayatrizi is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

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