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""a must for any specialist and advanced practitioner's bookshelf."" Journal of Interpersonal CareThis book focuses on what happens after a death has taken place. Drawing on social theory and anthropology, contributors examine responses to death as they occur within the unique set of cultural, social and historical circumstances which characterizes post-war society. The book does not just document and make sense of contemporary practices but also critically reviews the ways grief, mourning and death ritual have been approached by academics and practitioners in the field. It does this by combining substantial reviews with shorter illustrative examples of grief, mourning and death ritual as they are manifest in specific settings and with defined groups. These illustrative examples include personal and institutional responses to death at different points in the life cycle, and responses to different sorts of death - the death of children and death in disasters for example. The examples include commentaries on bereavement work and on changes in both the funeral industry and memorialization practices. Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual is aimed at advanced students in sociology, anthropology and psychology with an interest in death, dying and mortality. It is also directly relevant to those concerned with loss and how to respond to it. The book is therefore suitable for use on courses in nursing, palliative care, social work and counselling.

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Author:   HOCKEY ,  Jeanne Samson Katz ,  Neil Small
Publisher:   Open University Press
Imprint:   Open University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.446kg
ISBN:  

9780335205011

ISBN 10:   0335205011
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 February 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Series editor's preface Introduction Theories of grief a critical review Is grief an illness? Issues of theory in relation to cultural diversity and the grieving process Four siblings' perspectives on parent death a family focus 'Naturalizing' death among older adults in residential care Just an old fashioned love song or a harlequin romance? Some experiences of widowhood Discourse into practice the production of bereavement care The skills we need. Bereavement counselling and governmentality in England 'You have to get inside the person' or making grief private image and metaphor in the therapeutic re-construction of bereavement Supporting bereaved children at school The child death helpline A place for my child. The evolution of a candle service Changing death rituals Funeral ritual, past and present Forget me not memorialisation in cemeteries and crematoria The cemetery the evidence of continuing bonds Hindu death and mourning rituals the impact of geographical mobility Grieving in public Post-disaster rituals Conclusions References Index.

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Jenny Hockey is senior lecturer at Hull University. A social anthropologist, her publications include Death, Gender and Ethnicity (with D. Field and N. Small), 1997; Beyond the Body, Death and Social Identity (with E. Hallam and G. Howarth), 1999. She is a member of the editorial board of Mortality, the journal of death studies. Jeanne Katz teaches at the Open University in the School of Health and Social Welfare. She chairs the Death and Dying course and has contributed to other courses including Health Promotion and Human Biology and Health. Her research focuses on caring for people of different ages dying in a variety of settings. Neil Small is Professor of Community and Primary Care at Bradford University. In this position his focus is on the relationship between policy innovation and practice development. This fits in well with longer term interests in theory and evidence in health and social care and with research into service user involvement.

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