Constructing Death
Constructing Death
The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement
Clive Seale, Goldsmiths, University of London
October 1998
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Paperback
9780521595094
Constructing Death reviews sociological, anthropological and historical studies of death, grief and mourning in order to illuminate present-day experience. It is both an introduction to the sociological study of death, dying and bereavement, and an original contribution to death studies and social theory, combining a theoretical argument with original research material. The volume will be of use to students and scholars of sociology, as well as health care practitioners.
- Relevant to both a sociological and a health care practitioner audience
- Combines a theoretical argument with original research material
- Ranges beyond sociology into anthropology and history
Reviews & endorsements
"Clive Seale has done a remarkable job in explaining why sociologists should pay much more attention to the work that is being done in death studies." John Hillman, CJS Online
Product details
October 1998Paperback
9780521595094
248 pages
229 × 153 × 23 mm
0.41kg
2 tables
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Part I. Social and Material Worlds:
- 1. Experiencing and representing the body
- 2. Death, embodiment and social structure
- 3. The social aspect of death
- Part II. Representing Death:
- 4. Medicine, modernity and the risks of life
- 5. The revival of death awareness
- 6. Reporting death
- Part III. Experiencing Death:
- 7. Falling from culture
- 8. Awareness and control of dying
- 9. Grief and resurrective practices.
