Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal

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Jupp, Peter C.Herausgegeben von Howarth, Glennys

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Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am20.11.19951996

Since the construction of death mores has social implications, a major element of the book is an examination of the way in which groups and individuals employ specific representations of mortality in order to generate meaning and purpose for life and death.mehr

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KlappentextSince the construction of death mores has social implications, a major element of the book is an examination of the way in which groups and individuals employ specific representations of mortality in order to generate meaning and purpose for life and death.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-333-63862-0

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

Springer Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr1995

Erscheinungsdatum20.11.1995

Auflage1996

Seiten225 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht396 g

IllustrationenXIX, 225 p.

Artikel-Nr.16952616

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Foreword; M.Young - Introduction; G.Howarth - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: LOCATING DEATH IN MODERN WESTERN SOCIETIES - The View from the West: Reading the Anthropology of Non-Western Death Ritual; J.Hockey - The Social Facts of Death; D.Davies - Change and Continuity in the Funeral Rituals of Sikhs in Britain; S.Singh Kalsi - PART 2: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF DEATH - Vile Bodies and Mass Media Chantries; J.Davies - Dirt, Death, Decay and Dissolution: American Denial and British Avoidance; C.Davies - Dead Beauty: The Preservation, Memorialization, and Destruction of Beauty in Death; J.L.Foltyn - Representations of 'Good' and 'Bad' Death Among Deathworkers and the Bereaved; M.Bradbury - The Good Death: Attitudes of British Hindus; S.Firth - PART 3: THE ROLE OF HEALTH AND DEATH WORKERS - Terminal Care Education for Doctors; D.Field - Nurses' Perceptions of Stress When Working with Dying Patients on a Cancer Ward; J.S.Katz - Police Coping with Death: Assumptions and Rhetoric; M.Mitchell - PART 4: SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF LEGAL AND MEDICAL RESPONSES TO DEATH AND DYING - Death and the Disease: Inside the Culture of Childhood Cancer; S.Ball, A.Cribb & S.Bignold - Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Are Doctors' Duties when Following Patients' Orders a Bitter Pill to Swallow?; D.Pappas - The Donation of Organs for Transplantation: The Donor Families; M.Robbins - Facing Death Without Tradition; T.Walter - Bibliography - Indexmehr