| Description |
x, 302 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Sociological review monograph, 0081-1769 ; [40] |
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Sociological review monograph ; 40
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| Contents |
Death in high modernity : the contemporary presence and absence of death / Philip Mellor -- Social death in Britain / Michael Mulkay -- Death, inheritance and the life course / Janet Finch and Lorraine Wallis -- The denial of death and rites of passage in contemporary societies / Jane Littlewood -- Dying in a public place : AIDS deaths / Neil Small -- War memorials / Jon Davies -- The acceptable face of human grieving? The clergy's role in managing emotional expression during funerals / Jenny Hockey -- A gendered history of the social management of death and dying in Foleshill, Coventry, during the inter-war years / Sheila Adams -- Cremation or burial? Contemporary choice in city and village / Peter Jupp -- Volunteers in the British hospice movement / David Field and Ian Johnson -- Investigating deathwork : a personal account / Glennys Howarth -- Awareness contexts and the construction of dying in the cancer treatment setting : 'micro' and 'macro' levels in narrative analysis / Kirsten Costain Schou -- Sociologists never die : British sociology and death / Tony Walter |
| Analysis |
Humans Death |
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Death |
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Funerals |
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Great Britain |
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Hospices |
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Overseas item |
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Social behaviour |
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Statistics |
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Terminal care |
| Notes |
(Sociological review monograph ; 1993) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Sociological review monograph no:40 0081-1769 |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Death.
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Thanatology.
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Death.
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Social Conditions.
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Attitude to Death.
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Thanatology.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Author |
Clark, David, 1953-
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| LC no. |
93030934 |
| ISBN |
0631190570 |
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