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Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Glennys Howarth

    1. University of Sussex, UK

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  2. Peter C. Jupp

    1. Institute of Community Studies, London, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Locating Death in Modern Western Societies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The View from the West: Reading the Anthropology of Non-western Death Ritual

      • Jenny Hockey
      Pages 3-16

    3. The Social Facts of Death

      • Douglas Davies
      Pages 17-29

    4. Change and Continuity in the Funeral Rituals of Sikhs in Britain

      • Sewa Singh Kalsi
      Pages 30-43

  4. The Role of Health and Death Workers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Terminal Care Education for Doctors

      • David Field
      Pages 111-123

    3. Nurses’ Perceptions of Stress when Working with Dying Patients on a Cancer Ward

      • Jeanne Samson Katz
      Pages 124-136

    4. Police Coping with Death: Assumptions and Rhetoric

      • Margaret Mitchell
      Pages 137-148

  5. Social Implications of Legal and Medical Responses to Death and Dying

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Death and the Disease: Inside the Culture of Childhood Cancer

      • Stephen J. Ball, Sarah Bignold, Alan Cribb
      Pages 151-164

    3. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Are Doctors’ Duties when Following Patients’ Orders a Bitter Pill to Swallow?

      • Demetra M. Pappas
      Pages 165-178

    4. The Donation of Organs for Transplantation: the Donor Families

      • Margaret Robbins
      Pages 179-192

    5. Facing Death without Tradition

      • Tony Walter
      Pages 193-204
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This book utilises a dynamic analysis of mortality to acknowledge shifts of emphasis in cultural and religious traditions. A central concern is the diversity of representations of death to be found within the varying cultural, religious, medical and legal systems of contemporary western societies. Since the construction of death mores has social implications, a major element of the book is an examination of the way in which groups and individuals employ specific representations of mortality in order to generate meaning and purpose for life and death.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, UK

    Glennys Howarth

  • Institute of Community Studies, London, UK

    Peter C. Jupp

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