Death in a global age / Ruth McManus.

New Zealand author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Death is socially mediated -- an example -- Why study death? -- Death around the globe -- Aims and limitations of this book -- The content of the book -- 1. Perspectives and Theories on Death and Dying: New Horizons -- Introduction -- Enduring issues in the sociology of death and dying -- Sociological perspectives and approaches -- Sociological theories on death and dying -- Modern death as death-denying -- Death and globalization -- Advanced modernity -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 2. The Social Organization of Death and Dying: A New Paradigm Emerges -- Introduction -- Conceptualizing the boundary between life and death -- The scientization of medicine -- The institutionalization of medicine -- The social control of death by medicine -- A new social organization of dying and death: 9/11, hybrid humans and intercontinental organ farms -- From blood products to transplantation -- Conclusion -- Questions.

Contents note continued: 3. Patterns in Life and Death: Demographic Trends and Life Expectancies -- Introduction -- Why counting the dead matters -- Global flows of money and Russian life expectancy -- Trading death: the tobacco industry -- Global flows of people: SARS and H1N1 -- Global trends in death and dying -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 4. The Death Industries: Bespoke My Death -- Introduction -- The modern death care archetype -- Death professionals -- Experts for the dying -- Experts for the recently dead -- A new, advanced modern archetype for managing death -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 5. Funerary Rites: Give Me a Decent Send-Off -- Introduction -- Interment rites as practices of belonging -- Taking belonging for granted -- Belonging in a global age -- Twenty-first-century interment concerns -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 6. Grief: Solace in a Global Age -- Introduction -- What is grief? -- The social context and personal experience of grieving.

Contents note continued: The scientization of grief -- Narrating continuous bonds -- Grieving online -- Cyber-solace -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 7. Death: Global Imaginaries -- Introduction -- The sociology of mass death -- Current ways of managing mass death -- Management: Responding to mass death crises -- Prevention: Preventing mass death -- Remembrance: Remembering mass death -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 8. Religion: The De-secularization of Life and Death? -- Introduction -- Sociology, religion and death -- Modernity and the disenchantment of death -- Post-secularism: negotiating the non-negotiable -- Religion in post-secular death studies -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 9. Representations of Mortality: Watching Real Death Is Good? -- Introduction -- Sacred and profane representations of death -- Moral codes representing death -- Representing death in advanced modernity -- Fictional accounts of ordinary deaths -- Actual accounts of ordinary deaths.

Contents note continued: Fictional accounts of extraordinary deaths -- Factual accounts of extraordinary deaths -- Conclusion -- Questions -- 10. Conclusion: Death in a Global Age -- Questions.

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