Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The View from the West: Reading the Anthropology of Non-western Death Ritual....Pages 3-16
The Social Facts of Death....Pages 17-29
Change and Continuity in the Funeral Rituals of Sikhs in Britain....Pages 30-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Vile Bodies and Mass Media Chantries....Pages 47-59
Dirt, Death, Decay and Dissolution: American Denial and British Avoidance....Pages 60-71
Dead Beauty: The Preservation, Memorialisation and Destruction of Beauty in Death....Pages 72-83
Representations of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Death among Deathworkers and the Bereaved....Pages 84-95
The Good Death: Attitudes of British Hindus....Pages 96-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Terminal Care Education for Doctors....Pages 111-123
Nurses’ Perceptions of Stress when Working with Dying Patients on a Cancer Ward....Pages 124-136
Police Coping with Death: Assumptions and Rhetoric....Pages 137-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Death and the Disease: Inside the Culture of Childhood Cancer....Pages 151-164
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Are Doctors’ Duties when Following Patients’ Orders a Bitter Pill to Swallow?....Pages 165-178
The Donation of Organs for Transplantation: the Donor Families....Pages 179-192
Facing Death without Tradition....Pages 193-204
Back Matter....Pages 205-225