Clive Seale, Seale Clive

Constructing Death

The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Constructing Death reviews sociological, anthropological and historical studies of death, grief and mourning in order to illuminate present-day experience. 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. The volume will be of use to students and scholars of sociology, as well as health care practitioners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780521594301
• ISBN-10: 0521594308
• Artikelnr.: 22221075

Inhaltsangabe

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.