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The Spirit Ambulance by Scott Stonington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
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The Spirit Ambulance by Scott Stonington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
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The Spirit Ambulance by Scott Stonington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
From Scott Stonington
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The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a “debt of life" to their elders through intensive medical care, followed by a medically assisted rush from the hospital to home to ensure a spiritually advantageous last breath. The result is a powerful exploration of the nature of death and the complexities arising from the globalization of biomedical expertise and ethics around the world. | The Spirit Ambulance by Scott Stonington, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters