ISBN:
9781137391902
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 278 S,)
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Ill, graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Social Construction of Death
DDC:
306.9 |2 23
Keywords:
Theater-History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Tod
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Soziale Wahrnehmung
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Geschichte 1950-2014
Abstract:
〈p 〉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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I The Social Construction of Death; 1 A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to Death and Dying; 2 Studying Illness and Dying through Constructivist Grounded Theory; 3 Feeling Bodies: Analysing the Unspeakability of Death; Part II Death in Popular Media; 4 Representations of Corpses in Contemporary Television; 5 Ladies' Choice? Requested Death in Film; 6 The Expertise of Illness: Celebrity Constructions and Public Understandings
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Political and Ethical Dimensions of Death7 Death, Fantasy, and the Ethics of Mourning; 8 Ethics, Killing and Dying: The Discursive Struggle between Ethics of War and Peace Models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955-1959; 9 On the Deathly Construction of Society; Part IV 'Governing' Death and the Dead; 10 From Theft to Donation: Dissection, Organ Donation and Collective Memory; 11 Digital Objects of the Dead: Negotiating Electronic Remains; 12 'This In-Between': How Families Talk about Death in Relation to Severe Brain Injury and Disorders of Consciousness
Description / Table of Contents:
Afterword: The Social Construction of Death: Reflections from a Quantitative Public Health ResearcherIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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