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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Death, Disease and the Body
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Public Discourse
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Private Discourse
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About this book
A study of the way in which death is socially organized in the city of Belfast. It analyzes the responses to 415 deaths registered here in 1981, tracing the social, medical, legal, religious and political responses made to those deaths from the time death was pronounced to the time of disposal.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Organisation of Death
Book Subtitle: Medical Discourse and Social Practices in Belfast
Authors: Lindsay Prior
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19918-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Lindsay Prior 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-46435-9Published: 15 May 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19918-1Published: 15 May 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 230