The Social Construction of Death : Interdisciplinary Perspectives / / edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier.
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 p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.