Mapping the perimeter of death and dying / / edited by Carol McAllum, Madeline Gorman.

• TeilnehmendeR: McAllum, Carol,; Gorman, Madeline,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2019]; 2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Inter-Disciplinary Press Sociology, Politics and Education Special E-book Collection, 2009-2016, ISBN: 9789004400979
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Religion, Metaphysics, Reality and The Problem of Death in Modern Literature and Philosophy /; Controlling Death: Philosophical Thanatology Meets Cultural Expectations /; Exquisite Corpses: The Depreciation of Female Death in Artistic Representation /; Corporate Culture, Policy and Caring in American Hospices: A Viewpoint /; Defining Death: The Challenge Posed by Near-Death Experiences /; The Roles of Social Actors in Accounts of Near-Death Experiences: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of France and the United States /; Virtual Immortality: Death, the Digital Screen and Facebook /; Death and Human Dignity in the Cinema of Liliana Cavani /; Vampires and the Failure of the Nordic Welfare State /; Graveyards on Paper: The Visual Form of Death Notices in the Estonian Press, 1865-2012 /; Montana’s Courting of Physician Aid in Dying: McCarter’s Trumpet /; On Futility and a Supposed Right to Kill from Benevolent Motives: Compassion and Justice at the End of Life /; Burial Lamenting in a 21st Century Vepsian Village: The Collective and the Individual /; In Memory of Children Who Die before Being Known: A Ritual Field in a Formative Phase /; The End: Before and after the Metaphor in the Contemporary Romanian Mass Media /; Shared Collective Emotions? The Funeral of Robert Enke as a Public Event /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1848882424
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Carol McAllum, Madeline Gorman.

Insomuch that death is both universal as well as subject to varied registers of meaning, death as a field of research occupies a necessarily inter-disciplinary position. This volume gathers multiple perspectives on death and dying composed by a selection of papers that were presented at the 9th Global Conference on Making Sense of: Dying and Death, held in Salzburg, Austria in November, 2012. Countering notions of death as mere negation, these chapters map out regions of sense-making along the perimeters of life. It approaches death and dying from an array of scholarly, theoretical, and practical disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, theology, political science, media studies, education, art studies, anthropology, sociology, and health care.