Social and cultural factors can strongly influence how we approach death and dying, including attitudes towards death, rituals and practices surrounding death, and end- of-life care....Loe edasi...
This book draws on original research to illuminate how the personal values and norms of healthcare professionals in the Emergency Department (ED) influence how they experience the death of a patient, and develop tools and strategies to cope with the...Loe edasi...
This volume for the first time examines the intricate and often obscured interplay between death and public relations across historical periods and within contemporary society. It will be of interest to scholars of public relations, communication st...Loe edasi...
This volume offers readers a comprehensive and vivid picture of medieval death and burial in England, bringing the fascinating beliefs and rituals surrounding mortality into sharp focus....Loe edasi...
This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking....Loe edasi...
Advances in artificial intelligence are enabling the construction of digital ghosts: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data. This book...Loe edasi...
This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices tha...Loe edasi...
Considering the potential and perils of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuse-related deaths, this book examines what DARDRs first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) are...Loe edasi...
Working with Bereaved Parents is a thoughtful guide for frontline practitioners in mental health and medicine who face the daunting task of helping parents after the death of a child....Loe edasi...
This book explores how normalcy looks from desisters point of view, thereby shedding light on the gendered, classed, and age-graded harms of the normal life desisters (are told to) aspire to as well as the forms of resistance involved in approaching...Loe edasi...
Whilst death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how it is experienced. Bringing together contributors from around the world, this collection of essays prov...Loe edasi...
In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life have increasingly been identified as being of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. This interdisciplinary collection draws to...Loe edasi...
Gravestones are seen as cultural spaces that inscribe memory, history, and heritage in addition to being texts that display first-hand information about the deceased. This book underscores the importance of material culture, specifically gravestones...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued that anatomical and pathological collections are medically relevant for future research, and are important in the history of medici...Loe edasi...
In 1705-1706, an epidemic of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XIs physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, was ordered to perform a series of dissections to discover the cause of the epidemic, which hindered confession, thus threatening the...Loe edasi...
Each suicide is as unique as the individuals involved, especially if one examines the nature of the act and to what extent these acts can be viewed as a theatrical performance...Loe edasi...
This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and...Loe edasi...
In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explore the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child....Loe edasi...
Creating Meaning in Funerals is a book about the ways in which bereaved families and communities create meaningful ceremonies against a backdrop of what is culturally appropriate, even when their choices might make little economic sense to those out...Loe edasi...
This book explores historical, socio-political and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage....Loe edasi...
