Mary Bradbury

Representations of Death

A Social Psychological Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this is an intriguing book which takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780415150224
• ISBN-10: 0415150221
• Artikelnr.: 22453611

Autorenporträt

Mary Bradbury is a researcher and freelance lecturer. She is currently training at the Institute of Psycho-analysis, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The study of death
Chapter 2 Researching death
Chapter 3 Medicine and bureaucracy
Chapter 4 Commerce and ritual
Chapter 5 The body
Chapter 6 Social representations of death
Chapter 7 Social representations of loss
Chapter 8 Re-presenting death