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Scripting Death

Stories of Assisted Dying in America
By Mara Buchbinder
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
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Scripting Death offers a comprehensive account of post-compulsory education and training policy in the UK since 1944. It challenges the reader and policymakers to think differently about how to design and implement more successful skills policies in the future. Read More
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Scripting Death offers a comprehensive account of post-compulsory education and training policy in the UK since 1944. It challenges the reader and policymakers to think differently about how to design and implement more successful skills policies in the future.

Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520425194

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 August 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 248

Collections

Education & Reference Grief & Loss Mara Buchbinder Non-Fiction Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

About the Author

Mara Buchbinder is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain and coauthor of Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening.
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