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The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Leen Van Brussel
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Description for The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Van Brussel, Leen; Carpentier, Nico. Num Pages: 278 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137391902
SKU
V9781137391902
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Ref
99-15
About Leen Van Brussel
Arnar Árnason, University of Aberdeen, UK Daniel Ashton, Bath Spa University, UK Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University, USA Joachim Cohen, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Belgium John Cromby, Loughborough University, UK Margaret Gibson, Griffith University, Australia Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK Glennys Howarth, Plymouth University, UK Jenny Kitzinger, Chronic Disorders of Consciousness ... Read more
Reviews for The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
“This volume adds to that progress with a collection of 13 wide-ranging and admirably conducted studies into various aspects of death and dying, mourning and loss, in both situated and mediated dimensions of our engagement with them. Social constructionist/ivist thanatology is one particular perspective among a number of others relevant to the field, but here it is shown to be ... Read more