The social construction of death : interdisciplinary perspectives - Brussel, Leen Van, 1987-; Carpentier, Nico. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macm illan, 2014)
Introduction / Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier -- A discourse-t heoretical approach to death and dying / Leen Van Brussel -- Studying i llness and dying through constructivist grounded theory / Linda Liska B elgrave and Kathy Charmaz -- Feeling bodies: analysing the unspeakabili ty of death / John Cromby and Adele Phillips -- Representations of corp ses in contemporary television / Tina Weber -- Ladies' choice? requeste d death in film / Fran Mcinerney -- The expertise of illness: celebrity constructions and public understandings / Daniel Ashton -- Death, fant asy, and the ethics of mourning / Jason Glynos -- Ethics, killing and d ying: the discursive struggle between ethics of war and peace models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955-1959 / Nico Carpentier -- From th eft to donation: dissection, organ donation and collective memory / Gle nnys Howarth -- Digital objects of the dead: negotiating electronic rem ains / Margaret Gibson -- "This in-between": how families talk about de ath in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness / Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger -- Afterword / Joachim Cohen.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Thanatology; Death -- Social aspects; Death in mass media