The Social Construction of Death : Interdisciplinary Perspectives /


edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier.
Bok Engelsk 2014
Medvirkende
Omfang
1 online resource (293 pages)
Utgave
1st ed. 2014.
Opplysninger
Introduction / Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier -- A discourse-theoretical approach to death and dying / Leen Van Brussel -- Studying illness and dying through constructivist grounded theory / Linda Liska Belgrave and Kathy Charmaz -- Feeling bodies: analysing the unspeakability of death / John Cromby and Adele Phillips -- Representations of corpses in contemporary television / Tina Weber -- Ladies' choice? requested death in film / Fran Mcinerney -- The expertise of illness: celebrity constructions and public understandings / Daniel Ashton -- Death, fantasy, and the ethics of mourning / Jason Glynos -- Ethics, killing and dying: the discursive struggle between ethics of war and peace models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955-1959 / Nico Carpentier -- From theft to donation: dissection, organ donation and collective memory / Glennys Howarth -- Digital objects of the dead: negotiating electronic remains / Margaret Gibson -- "This in-between": how families talk about death in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness / Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger -- Afterword / Joachim Cohen.. - Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences – use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.
Emner
Dewey
ISBN
1-137-39191-X. - 1-137-39192-8

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