Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
PART I. SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTITUDES TO DEATH.1. Death, Denial and Diversity.
2. When and How People Die.
3. Life and Death in "Risk Society'.
4. Death, Religion and Spirituality.
5. Death and the Media.
PART II. SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES OF DYING.6. Dying: Institutionalization and Medicalization.
7. The Good Death.
8. The Social Organization of Sudden Death.
9. The Dying and the Dead Body.
PART III. POST-DEATH RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE AND SURVIVAL BELIEFS.10. Grief and Loss.
11. Relationships Between the Living and the Dead.
12. Mortuary Rituals.
Conclusion: Resurrecting Death?.
Notes.
References.
Index.
G. Howarth, Reader in Sociology, University of Bath
"A comprehensive and readable review of social scientific work
published on death and dying over the last few decades. The author
expertly develops that review by using aspects of what C. Wright
Mills called 'the sociological imagination' ... The text is nicely
rounded off with an extensive bibliography, a useful resource in
itself."
Mortality
"A comprehensive and thoughtful overview of the subject area.
But what is most refreshing about it is its powerful use of
structure-agency debates as tools that both challenge problematic
assumptions, and also highlight persistent intrinsic/structural
inequalities. This book is also, and crucially, an important
reminder of how sociological enquiry can help people who work as
carers, researchers and teachers to challenge the inequity of
service provision in death, dying and bereavement."
British Journal of Sociology
"A thoughtful, comprehensive, up-to-date, well-evidenced, general
guide to sociological work on death and dying."
Bereavement Care
"This is a tour de force! Glennys Howarth has written a systematic
and in-depth text about an area that is becoming increasingly
relevant to many disciplines. Her encyclopaedic knowledge of the
topic is conveyed comprehensively and accessibly to both the
informed and an as yet uninformed readership. It should be
essential reading for all those interested in developing their
knowledge of dying, death, disposal and bereavement."
Jeanne Katz, Open University
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