Glennys Howarth (University of Bath)

Death and Dying

A Sociological Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. Despite widespread interest across the social sciences in these issues of late, most textbooks have been written with the needs of health professionals in mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780745625348
• ISBN-10: 0745625347
• Artikelnr.: 21912137

Autorenporträt

G. Howarth, Reader in Sociology, University of Bath

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
PART I. SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTITUDES TO DEATH.
1. Death, Denial and Diversity.
2. When and How People Die.
3. Life and Death in "Risk Society'.
4. Death, Religion and Spirituality.
5. Death and the Media.
PART II. SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES OF DYING.
6. Dying: Institutionalization and Medicalization.
7. The Good Death.
8. The Social Organization of Sudden Death.
9. The Dying and the Dead Body.
PART III. POST-DEATH RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE AND SURVIVAL BELIEFS.
10. Grief and Loss.
11. Relationships Between the Living and the Dead.
12. Mortuary Rituals.
Conclusion: Resurrecting Death?.
Notes.
References.
Index.