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The Social Construction of Death : Interdisciplinary Perspectives / edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Television broadcasting.
- Sociology.
- Social groups.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Theater--History.
- Theater.
- Film and Television Studies.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Film and TV History.
- Cultural History.
- Theatre History.
- Local Subjects:
- Film and Television Studies.
- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
- Film and TV History.
- Cultural History.
- Sociology.
- Theatre History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- CC BY
- ISBN:
- 9781137391926
- 1137391928
- 9781137391919
- 113739191X
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