Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415150224 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 252 str.

Mary Bradbury

Opis

Drawing upon a rare ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death. Making extensive use of conversations with staff in hospitals, registry offices, funeral rooms and cemeteries, as well as drawing on fieldwork conducted with bereaved women, the book makes a contribution to the growing literature in death studies.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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