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010 $a 2014023556
020 $a9781137391902
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHQ1073$b.S67 2014
082 00 $a306.9$223
245 04 $aThe social construction of death :$binterdisciplinary perspectives /$c[edited by] Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $axii, 278 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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.
650 0 $aThanatology.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aDeath in mass media.
700 1 $aBrussel, Leen Van,$d1987-$eeditor.
700 1 $aCarpentier, Nico.