Good deaths, bad deaths

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Inhalt/Contents: * Suzette Heald: Introduction * The authors of this special theme * Anne Hambro Alnaes: Organ Donation Deaths: Good or Bad? Some „Good“ in „Bad“ Deaths * Ikumi Okamoto: Dying a Good Death at a Palliative Care Unit in Japan * Maureen Bloom: Dementia, Disability and Dignity: The Case for Autonomy * Fred Klaits: Care for the Dying, Care by the Dying: „Giving up“ in a Church of the Spirit in Botswana * Santiago Alvarez: Burying Patriarchs, Heroes, Suicides and Traitors: Solidarity and Ostracism in the Funeral Rites of a Peasant Community of the Colombian Andes * Gabriele Alexr: „When you are feeling of no use anymore.“ Explaining Suicide in Rural Tamil Nadu * Ernst Halbmayer: Meaning of Suicide and Conceptions of Death among the Yukpa and other Amerindians of Lowland South America * Iain Edgar: Overtures of Paradise: Night Dreams and Islamic Jihadist Militancy. Mitteilungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin e. V. - MAGEM 30/2008 # Kultur, Medizin und Psychologie im Trialog - Bilanzen im interdisziplinären Arbeitsfeld Ethnologie & Medizin. Remscheid 05.-07. Dezember 2008. 21ste Fachtagung Ethnomedizin der AGEM in der Akademie Remscheid Dokumentation # „Ethnomedizin“ und „Medical Anthropology“. Ein Überblick zu Entwicklungen in den deutschsprachigen Ländern im Jahr 1978 (Reprint als Übersetzung aus: Schröder, Ekkehard 1978. Ethnomedicine and Medical Anthropology. A Survey of Developments in Germany. Reviews in An