Overview

This book utilises a dynamic analysis of mortality to acknowledge shifts of emphasis in cultural and religious traditions. A central concern is the diversity of representations of death to be found within the varying cultural, religious, medical and legal systems of contemporary western societies. 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.

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Author:   Glennys Howarth ,  Peter C. Jupp ,  Michael Young
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.465kg
ISBN:  

9780333638620

ISBN 10:   033363862
Pages:   225
Publication Date:   20 November 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 - Index

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