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Chapter 26 - The Sociology of Death and Dying

from Part VI - The Sociology of the Life Course

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

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Ruth McManus
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Kathleen Odell Korgen
Kathleen Odell Korgen
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William Paterson University, New Jersey
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies
 , pp. 256 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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