Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of
Since the efforts of Dame Cicely Saunders and the founders of the modern hospice movement, compassion has become a fundamental part of palliative care. In this ground-breaking book, international expe
This is a comprehensive but readable history of contemporary France that sets the changing fortunes of both people and government in a broad, international context. Larkin looks at the country's econo
