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.
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"Clive Seale has done a remarkable job in explaining why sociologists should pay much more attention to the work that is being done in death studies." John Hillman, CJS Online
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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 and health care practitioners.
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Our bodies are the means by which we have life, vehicles for our communal sense of what it is to be human. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aware dying role, full open awareness, resurrective practice, intact social bond, revivalist script, revivalist discourse, modernist medicine, reflexive formation, human social bond, revivalist themes, death thesis, sentimental order, closed awareness, caring team, sheltering canopy, research medium, emotional accompaniment, dying trajectories, narrative reconstruction, bereaved people, hospice movement, terminal prognosis, death certification, requests for euthanasia, cultural scripts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Our bodies are the means by which we have life, vehicles for our communal sense of what it is to be human. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aware dying role, full open awareness, resurrective practice, intact social bond, revivalist script, revivalist discourse, modernist medicine, reflexive formation, human social bond, revivalist themes, death thesis, sentimental order, closed awareness, caring team, sheltering canopy, research medium, emotional accompaniment, dying trajectories, narrative reconstruction, bereaved people, hospice movement, terminal prognosis, death certification, requests for euthanasia, cultural scripts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on page 104, and Back Matter
- Awareness of Dying by Barney G. Glaser on page 99, and Back Matter
- Time for Dying by Barney G. Glaser on page 99, and Back Matter
- Sociology of Food and Eating: Essays on the Sociological Significance of Food (Gower International Library of Research & Practice) by Anne Murcott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sex Work On The Streets by McKeganey on page 133, and Back Matter
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- Lines of Narrative: Psychosocial Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative) by Molly Andrews in Front Matter, and page 47
- Exploring the Body (Explorations in Sociology) by Sarah Cunningham-Burley in Front Matter, and page 113
- Human Growth and Development by Chris Beckett on page 225, and Back Matter
- Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures) by Lesley A. Sharp in Back Matter
- The Dying Process: Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care by Julia Lawton in Back Matter
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