PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuclear Medicine, Murphy Brown, Web Fiction

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3101
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

Aitudes towards death an expression of these aitudes are a relecion of todays society. Release and relief (means of coping for caregiver and paient) Old wool coats never die: become moth balled. Walt disney did not die, suspended in animaion. How are aitude disseminated? o o o o o. Literature e. g. icion, ancient icion, pyrogliics, cave wall painings. Music e. g. funeral marches visual arts e. g. painings. Hand sitched panels went around the usa with memorabilia, jewellery, art, etc. By the media o can watch ppl die/the news, it is not us so we do not worry to comfort ourselves in the idea of death. Nuclear weapons, nuclear medicine (cure cancer), nuclear energy. Made palable so we don"t have to think about them. Humane approaches vs the technologies - birth and dying. Age of transiion - failure and death are not synonymous. Just b/c someone died, doctor not at fault, no one failed.