Acknowledgments
Jandi: The Spirit Ambulance
Arirat: Facing the Karma Master
Introduction: Choreographing the End of Life
1. Paying the Debt of Life
2. The Spirit Ambulance Buddhadasa: Problematizing Death 3.
The New End of Life
4. Karma Masters
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Scott Stonington, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the
University of Michigan.
"I commend Stonington on this powerful and practically useful
study which will have a lasting impact on my practice of bioethics
(and I imagine that of many others) in a culturally diverse
context. I would highly recommend this book for scholars (such as
those in anthropology and religious studies), for those with a
general interest in various approaches to dying and caring for the
dying, and especially for those who wish to improve cultural safety
when planning and delivering healthcare with Thai patients and
families in diaspora."
*Journal of Buddhist Ethics*
"Stonington’s ethnographic ‘journey’ and gradually growing
understanding emerges continually through the narrative of the
book, and to this reviewer is one of the book’s most engaging
aspects, and perhaps one of its central lessons for an important
readership, medical and health practitioners."
*Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the
Study of Traditional Asian Medicine*
"The Spirit Ambulance is a complex, elegant ethnographic account of
the good death and end-of-life care. It is theoretically
sophisticated and makes significant contributions to the
anthropology of Thailand, medical anthropology, and the
anthropology of ethics."
*Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute*
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