Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth Whitby

Understanding Baby Loss

The Sociology of Life, Death and Post-Mortem

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding baby loss offers an extraordinary ethnographic exploration of the sensitive subject of baby loss and post-mortem. The book combines an in-depth sociological analysis of clinical and technological aspects of the post-mortem process with detailed understandings of parent and professional feelings, emotions and care practices. Throughout the book, the authors show that post-mortem is not just a scientific or clinical examination but, rather, forms a key part of the bereavement process. The book offers a comprehensive and thoughtful account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. The book shows that post-mortem can play a crucial role in establishing cause of death and assist parents with emotional and diagnostic closure. By shedding light on this hidden and taboo aspect of healthcare, Understanding baby loss offers a valuable contribution to the sociology of emotions, medical sociology, sociology of work, death and dying studies and science and technology studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526191564
• ISBN-10: 1526191563
• Artikelnr.: 72702700

Autorenporträt

Kate Reed is a Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Sheffield Julie Ellis is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Health and Illness at the University of Huddersfield Elspeth Whitby is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield