The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to Death and Dying....Pages 13-33
Studying Illness and Dying through Constructivist Grounded Theory....Pages 34-51
Feeling Bodies: Analysing the Unspeakability of Death....Pages 52-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Representations of Corpses in Contemporary Television....Pages 75-91
Ladies’ Choice? Requested Death in Film....Pages 92-113
The Expertise of Illness: Celebrity Constructions and Public Understandings....Pages 114-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Death, Fantasy, and the Ethics of Mourning....Pages 137-160
Ethics, Killing and Dying: The Discursive Struggle between Ethics of War and Peace Models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955–1959....Pages 161-184
On the Deathly Construction of Society....Pages 185-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
From Theft to Donation: Dissection, Organ Donation and Collective Memory....Pages 205-220
Digital Objects of the Dead: Negotiating Electronic Remains....Pages 221-238
‘This In-Between’: How Families Talk about Death in Relation to Severe Brain Injury and Disorders of Consciousness....Pages 239-258
Afterword: The Social Construction of Death: Reflections from a Quantitative Public Health Researcher....Pages 259-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-278