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Author Davis, Christine S., author.

Title Talking through death : communicating about death in interpersonal, mediated, and cultural contexts / Christine S. Davis and Deborah C. Breede
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents Trick or treat: communicating about death in culture and play -- Show and tell: communicating about death in fictional narratives -- Haunts and hunts: communicating about death in ghostly lore -- Fit to print: communicating about death in the news -- Angels of death: communicating about death in medical settings -- Talk to me: communicating about death in family settings -- Between the lines: communicating about death in obituaries -- Performing lives: communicating about death in funerals and eulogies -- Rhetoric of decay: communicating about death in cemeteries and burials -- The final word: communicating about death in epitaphs -- Worth dying for: communicating about death in monuments and memorials -- Epilogue
Summary "Talking Through Death looks at communication at the end-of-life from several different communication perspectives: interpersonal (patient, provider, family), mediated, and cultural. Through studying cultural media, funeral related rituals, religious and cultural practices, medical settings, and legal issues surrounding advance directives; readers will gain insight into the ways symbolic communication constructs the experience of death and dying, and the way meaning is infused into the dying process. The book will look at the communication-related health and social issues facing people and their families as they transition through the end of their life. It will report on research recently conducted by the author and others to create a conversational, narrative text that helps students understand the symbolism and construction of meaning inherent in end-of-life communication."
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Subject Communication and death
Death -- Symbolic aspects.
Death -- Social aspects
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Meaning (Psychology)
Death -- Psychological aspects
Death -- Social aspects
Death -- Symbolic aspects
Meaning (Psychology)
Form Electronic book
Author Breede, Deborah C., author.
ISBN 9780429014789
0429014783
Other Titles Communicating about death in interpersonal, mediated, and cultural contexts