Death and Institutions :Processes, Places and the Past - Death and Culture
Death and Institutions :Processes, Places and the Past - Death and Culture
hardback
Published:
21 March, 2025
Description
Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual settings such as hospitals and cemeteries, or being confined to specific disciplines.
This interdisciplinary collection combines chapters on process, place and the past to examine the relationships both within and between institutions, institutionalization and death in international contexts.
Of broad appeal to students and academics in areas including social policy, health sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, history and the wider humanities, this collection spans multiple disciplines to offer crucial insights into the end of life, body disposal, bereavement and mourning.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781529236668 |
| ISBN10 | 1529236665 |
| Number Of Pages | 218 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bristol University Press |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
“This collection offers clear and perceptive critical lenses to tropes about dying well, the ‘pejorative state’, necropolitics and the Death Positive Movement to name a few, which are soundly researched, timely and refreshing.” Ruth McManus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
“This collection reflects the great disciplinary diversity of editors Woodthorpe, Frisby and Michael-Fox whose expertise lies in sociology, history, English and media studies. Drawing on scholarly work from a wide variety of countries and from diverging historical periods, the editors have chosen a fascinating array of selections demonstrating the interplay between cultural institutions and death. Thanatology students will find many stimulating and thought-provoking viewpoints on the interplay between cultural institutions and death in this diverse collection.” W. Feigelman, Nassau Community College, CHOICE Reviews
Author's Bio
Kate Woodthorpe is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.
Helen Frisby is Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.
Bethan Michael-Fox teaches and researches in the School of English and Creative Writing at The Open University.