Constructing death : the sociology of dying and bereavement
Clive Seale, Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
A review of sociological, anthropological and historical studies of death, grief and mourning. It is both an introduction to the sociological study of death, dying and bereavement, and an original contribution to death studies and social theory, combining a theoretical argument with original research material.
Print Book, English, 1998
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998
X, 236 stron : ilustracje ; 23 cm.
9780521594301, 9780521595094, 0521594308, 0521595096
1107567399
Part I. Social and Material Worlds: 1. Experiencing and representing the body; 2. Death, embodiment and social structure; 3. The social aspect of death; Part II. Representing Death: 4. Medicine, modernity and the risks of life; 5. The revival of death awareness; 6. Reporting death; Part III. Experiencing Death: 7. Falling from culture; 8. Awareness and control of dying; 9. Grief and resurrective practices.