The revival of death / Tony Walter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walter, Tony, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thanatology.

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Talking about death is now fashionable, but how should we talk? Who should we listen to - priests, doctors, cousellors, or ourselves? Has psychology replaced religion in telling us how to die? This provocative book takes a sociological look at the revival of interest in death, focusing on the hospice movement and bereavement counselling. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of death and caring for the dying, the dead or bereaved.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Outline of the book; The dying of death; Medicalisation; Secularisation; Individualism; Rationality versus individualism; The revival of death; The authority of the self; The dying self; The deceased self; The bereaved self; Medicine subjectifies the patient; The two strands of revival; Postmodern revival; Self and reflexivity; Traditional, modern and neo-modern death; Bodily context; Social context; Authority; Coping; The journey; Values; Contradictions between types; Ideal types and historical change; Stories and meta-stories

The famous fiveGood grief; Stories and stages; Systems for listening; Teamwork; The therapeutic gaze; A spiritual gaze?; The nursing process; Expectations and assumptions; Models of the good death; Does the person die when the body dies?; The listening community or the defining community?; Learning from others in the same boat; Learning from the professionals; Gaining control, losing control; The professional carer; Which person?; The dying versus the survivors; Euthanasia; The funeral; Who are 'the bereaved'?; Routinisation; Bureaucratisation; Professionalisation; Finance; Audit

Continuity of missionReplacing the founder; Secularisation; Traditionalism; Disposal; From ritual to discourse; From discourse to ritual; Conclusion: facing death without traditionbut in company; A universal fear?; Come fly with me; The company; A new community?; Experts and radicals; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-202) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-81462-3

1-134-81463-1

0-203-22030-7

0-203-29402-5

1-280-32311-6

9780203220306

OCLC:

437082432