Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borgstrom, Erica.

Contributor:

Visser, Renske.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Critical Approaches to Health Series.

Critical Approaches to Health Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Series Editors' Preface

Critical Approaches to Health

Acknowledgements

Prologue

1 Introduction

Introduction

Critical Approaches to Death, Dying, and Bereavement

Power: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Necropolitics

Marginalised Loss: Grievability and Disenfranchised Grief

Tending to the Self

Structure of the Book

Notes

Section I Populations, Politics, and Society

2 Thinking With and Beyond Mortality Statistics

Introduction

History of Mortality Statistics

Creating and Understanding Mortality Statistics

Types of Mortality Statistics

Making Sense of the Numbers

Sources and Quality of Data

Cause of Death and Issues of Categorisation

International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems

Relationship Between Mortality Statistics and Action

Conclusion

3 Policy and Death

End-of-Life Care Policy: Crafting Dying as a Specific Policy Focus

Necropolitics: Migration, Queerness, and War

Notes

4 Mass Death Events and Shifting Death Practices

Contaminated Bodies and Refracted Rituals

Impact On Post-Death Practices

Changes Within the Deathcare System

Politics of Memorialisation

Who Can Access the Deceased

Politics of Mourning

5 Social Movements and Death

Black Lives Matter

Death Positive Movement

Discussion

Section II Dying

6 Medicalisation of Dying

Viewing Death as a Medical Event: Medicalisation of Death and Dying

Natural Death, Ordinary Dying, and Doulas

Dying and Technology: Illusions of Choice

End-of-Life Care and Access to Treatment: An Unequal Picture

7 Palliative Care and the Modern Hospice Movement

Modern Hospice Movement

Good Death

Inequality in Accessing an Idealised Death

8 Assisted Dying

Terminology

Countries With Legislation Around Assisted Dying

Assisted Dying and Inequality

Key Arguments Around Assisted Dying

Autonomy, Control and Choice

Preventing Suffering and Unwanted Futures

Vulnerability and a Slippery Slope

The Involvement of Doctors

Time

Ongoing Debate

9 Disenfranchised Dying

Maternal Mortality

Dying in Prison

Palliative Care in Prison

Considering Maternal Mortality in Detention Centres

Section III The Aftermath of Death

10 The Dead Body and Disposal Practices

Preparing the Body for Disposal

Burial

Cremation

Disposal and Land

Disposal and Sustainability

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

11 Grief Theories and Therapies

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Borgstrom, Erica Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement

ISBN:

9781040148747

1040148743

Publisher Number:

40032740066

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