E 'release, edited by George and Georges Cosmacini Vivarelli, the book The doctor facing death (centuries XVI-XXI) , published by the Foundation "Ariodante Fabretti, which already has distinguished itself by a number of excellent publications Thanatology and issues for the two magazines - Borders (items from the world of cremation) and Studies thanatological - sponsoring .
The book collects eleven essays (as many scholars) that cover various aspects of the problem: those of the deadly infection (A. Shepherd, Death and the plague. Notes on early modern medical treatises ) the attitude of activist 'Enlightenment about death (M. Sozzi, The doctor over death. L' Encyclopédie and the Enlightenment conception of death in the second half of the eighteenth century ) forms of "civil religion" associated with death (M . Canella, Architecture and civil rituals of death. crematoria The Temples of the century ) euthanasia contemporary contexts (I. Quaranta, Intersubjectivity, biopolitics and euthanasia. An anthropological reflection ). But all contributions deserve to be mentioned, and read by anyone who wants to understand how the "past present"-the phenomenon of death, by an increasingly consumerist removed or diluted, in the illusions, the other has not only maintained, but even extended its significance in relation to socio-political events, cultural horizons have expanded, and so on.
The typography of the book, sober and refined, it adds flavor to an already compelling reading, even under the demanding emotionally. A praise, then, the "Fabretti," in which - it should be remembered in this blog - is on Marco Novarino, scholar things Masonic.
Betto Moeller
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