Modern American Deathways

Some notes on Sharon Kaufman's _...And a Time to Die_, which we looked at in class last week

[I think there was a glitch in the system and this didn’t go out this morning as planned—my apology if in fact you got it twice. Still trying to figure out how this Substack thingy works…]

The medical anthropologist Sharon Kaufman’s study of modern American hospital culture, and specifically the ways in which that institution shapes the experiences most…