Remember me : constructing immortality / edited by Margaret Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Margaret, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Bereavement.

Physical Description:

ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents:

Constructing immortality : the role of the dead in everyday life / Margaret Mitchell

The rebirth of death : continuing relationships with the dead / Glennys Howarth

Sustaining kinship : ritualisation and the disposal of human ashes in the UK / Jenny Hockey, Leonie Kellaher & David Prendergast

Rachel comforted" : spiritualism and the reconstruction of the body after death / Joanna Bourke

Collective memory and forgetting : components for a study of obituaries / Bridget Fowler

Fever / Kathryn Hughes

Living on through death and donation : the body, property, law and ethics / Jennifer Westaway

The will : inheritance distribution and feuding families / Deirdre Drake

Complaints about health care in the UK following a person's death / Judith Allsop

Knowing by heart : remembering victims of intra-familial homicide / Carolyn Harris Johnson

Psychosocial death following traumatic brain injury / Camilla Herbert

Should suicides be reported in the media? / Gerard Sullivan

Family disputes, dysfunction, and division : case studies of road traffic deaths / Lauren Breen & Moira O'Connor

Dark tourism : the role of sites of death in tourism / John Lennon & Margaret Mitchell

Immortality work : photographs as memento mori / Halla Beloff

Art as afterlife : posthumous self presentation by eminent painters / Robert Wyatt

The eternal cadaver : anatomy and its representation / Monique Kornell

Representing trauma : the case for troubling images / Richard Read.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415954843

9780415954846

0415954851

9780415954853

OCLC:

70676499

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