New Modern Arcade – serie
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2 produkter
2 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
218 kr
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‘A thoughtful, brilliantly researched and, at times, surprisingly funny look at the final moment that comes to us all’ Dominic Hughes, BBC Health Correspondent‘A candid, necessary investigation into the ethics of ageing and the machinery of dying in the 21st century’ David Heymann, senior fellow, Chatham House‘A highly readable book that challenges how we think about dying in an era of modern medicine’ Martin McKee, former president of the British Medical Association‘You'll laugh, maybe cry and certainly be enriched by Richard's diverse encounters with death’ Mishal Khan, professor of international public health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine‘Richard's engaging and intimate writing brings life and energy to a complex and under-discussed subject’ Jane Anderson, chair of the National AIDS TrustA comprehensive, thought-provoking exploration of death and a rumination on how our own mortality affects how we live our lives.Timor Mortis – Latin for ‘fear of death’ – contemplates the fragility of life, exploring the myriad ways in which we confront our mortality, whether through stoicism, suffering, dignity, humour or grief. Public health doctor Richard Coker delves into the historical, biological, and psychological underpinnings of these experiences, as well as the moral complexities of human nature. He examines how our understanding of death has evolved, particularly through the lens of both his personal clinical and public health expertise.At a time when the role of medicine in end-of-life care is receiving increasing attention across public, policy and political spheres, Richard reflects on how the medical profession navigates, and sometimes fails to negotiate, this delicate process. Through unsettling examples, such as the humour that may be found in even the most unusual settings such as in giving an AIDS diagnosis to a young man, a professional failure in communication over resuscitation wishes, the desperation of a man too breathless to speak and the expectation to coordinate a death to fit a royal schedule, Timor Mortis invites readers to reflect on ageing, death and our relationship with a journey we will all take.Beyond addressing the philosophical and practical facets of mortality, Timor Mortis uniquely integrates a critical examination of contemporary societal phenomena that shape our relationship with death. The book also offers a compelling analysis of the political and economic forces at play in the business of death. By venturing into these rarely discussed intersections of commerce, policy and personal mortality, Coker provides a fresh and urgent perspective on the challenges of achieving a ‘good death’ and what this looks like in the modern era.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
218 kr
Kommande
This is the story of a crime that reverberated around the world. The victim is a tree.For more than a century, the tree at Sycamore Gap stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Planted in the nineteenth century, it became an iconic local landmark. It was immortalised in the 1991 film Robin Hood starring Kevin Costner, which transformed it into a symbol of the North East. One night in September 2023, two men – Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers – cut it down, prompting a manhunt and trial that played out through global headlines and an ensuing huge media outcry that took on a whole life of its own.Felled is about who these men are, why they cut this particular tree down and why the world felt so strongly about it. It is a portrait of two men who existed in the cracks; men who perhaps did not have the chance to compete on a level playing field; and how society was quick to condemn them when they were charged with felling the tree. It is a story about collective grief and outrage and of what we prioritise in our stories of loss and punishment. It examines the wider reaction to the felling by the British public and asks, concurrently, whether society – all of us – did enough to give these two men hope.Andrew Hankinson is an award-winning writer and the author of You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat], which won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and was recently used for a production at the Royal Court, with Andrew as artistic adviser. His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, The Sunday Times, FT, the Guardian, the Telegraph, GQ, Esquire, the Spectator and Wired. He was the only journalist to attend every day of the trial and sentencing of Graham and Carruthers.