ISBN:
9781137391902
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 278 S
,
Ill, graph. Darst.
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Thanatology
;
Death Social aspects
;
Death in mass media
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Tod
;
Soziale Wahrnehmung
;
Geschichte 1950-2014
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Introduction
,
Studying illness and dying through constructivist grounded theory
,
Feeling bodies: analysing the unspeakability of death
,
Representations of corpses in contemporary television
,
Ladies' choice? requested death in film
,
The expertise of illness: celebrity constructions and public understandings
,
Death, fantasy, and the ethics of mourning
,
Ethics, killing and dying: the discursive struggle between ethics of war and peace models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955-1959
,
From theft to donation: dissection, organ donation and collective memory
,
Digital objects of the dead: negotiating electronic remains
,
"This in-between": how families talk about death in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness
,
Afterword
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