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Lectures in History

End of Life Care and Death Since the 1800s

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Dickinson College professor Jim Hoefler taught a class about end of life care and perceptions of death in the United States since the 1800s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next, on lectures in history, Dickinson College Professor Jim Heffler teaches a class about end-of-life care and perceptions of death in the United States since the 1800s.

1:04.0

He explores how changes in medical practices and technology have extended life expectancy, but argues that in recent decades, Americans have become

1:12.5

removed from death through hospitals and funeral homes.

1:17.9

So today we've got these policy riddles and managing death.

1:22.8

And the idea here is we're going to try to look back in history and try to understand what the answers to some

1:29.3

of these riddles are related to managing deaths. So the first thing we need to do is figure out what

1:36.1

these riddles are. And some, we talked about these mostly, well, a little bit last Monday,

1:42.6

but we'll go through them real quick and then we'll get into

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the history part.

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