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Death, gender, and ethnicity / edited by David Field, Jenny Hockey, and Neil Small.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Field, David, 1942-
Hockey, Jennifer Lorna.
Small, Neil.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Death--Social aspects--Great Britain.
Death.
Bereavement--Great Britain.
Bereavement.
Terminal care--Great Britain.
Terminal care.
Sex role--Great Britain.
Sex role.
Ethnicity--Great Britain.
Ethnicity.
Minorities--Great Britain.
Minorities.
Great Britain--Social conditions.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event of death is encountered. It brings together accounts of how these experiences are actually managed with analyses of a range of representations of dying and grieving in order to provide a more theoretical approach to the relationship between death, gender and ethnicity. Though death and dying have been an increasingly important focus for academics and clinicians over the last thirty years, much of
Contents:
""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-134-75659-3
9786610327218
1-134-75660-7
1-280-32721-9
0-203-13844-9
9780203138441
OCLC:
560365010

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