The Social Construction of Death

Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences - use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences – use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

Introduction; Leen Van Brussel And Nico Carpentier 1. A Discourse-Theoretical Approach To Death And Dying; Leen Van Brussel 2. Studying Illness And Dying Through Constructivist Grounded Theory; Linda Liska Belgrave And Kathy Charmaz 3. Feeling Bodies: Analysing The Unspeakability Of Death; John Cromby And Adele Phillips 4. Representations Of Corpses In Comtemporary Television; Tina Weber 5. Ladies' Choice? Requested Death In Film; Fran Mcinerney 6. The Expertise Of Illness: Celebrity Constructions And Public Understandings; Daniel Ashton 7. Death, Fantasy, And The Ethics Of Mourning; Jason Glynos 8. Ethics, Killing And Dying: The Discursive Struggle Between Ethics Of War And Peace Models In The Cypriot Independence War Of 1955-1959; Nico Carpentier 9. On The Deathly Construction Of Society; Arnar Árnason 10. From Theft To Donation: Dissection, Organ Donation And Collective Memory; Glennys Howarth 11. Digital Objects Of The Dead: Negotiating Electronic Remains; Margart Gibson 12. 'ThisIn-Between': How Families Talk About Death In Relation To Severe Brain Injury And Disorders Of Consciousness; Celia Kitzinger And Jenny Kitzinger OPEN Afterword