Screen LibraryThe social construction of death interdisciplinary perspectives /
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, m...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137391902, 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | 296 p. : 8 ill. |
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9781137391919 : 113739191X : |
| CLC: | C913.9 |
| Contents: | Introduction-- Leen Van Brussel And Nico Carpentier 1. A Discourse-Theoretical Approach To Death And Dying-- Leen Van Brussel 2. Studying Illness And Dying Through Constructivist Grounded Theory-- Linda Liska Belgrave And Kathy Charmaz 3. Feeling Bodies: Analysing The Unspeakability Of Death-- John Cromby And Adele Phillips 4. Representations Of Corpses In Comtemporary Television-- Tina Weber 5. Ladies' Choice? Requested Death In Film-- Fran Mcinerney 6. The Expertise Of Illness: Celebrity Constructions And Public Understandings-- Daniel Ashton 7. Death, Fantasy, And The Ethics Of Mourning-- Jason Glynos 8. Ethics, Killing And Dying: The Discursive Struggle Between Ethics Of War And Peace Models In The Cypriot Independence War Of 1955-1959-- Nico Carpentier 9. On The Deathly Construction Of Society-- Arnar Arnason 10. From Theft To Donation: Dissection, Organ Donation And Collective Memory-- Glennys Howarth 11. Digital Objects Of The Dead: Negotiating Electronic Remains-- Margart Gibson 12. 'This In-Between': How Families Talk About Death In Relation To Severe Brain Injury And Disorders Of Consciousness-- Celia Kitzinger And Jenny Kitzinger Afterword. |