Seale, Clive.

Constructing death : the sociology of dying and bereavement / Clive Seale. - x, 236 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social and Material Worlds: -- Experiencing and representing the body -- Death, embodiment and social structure -- The social aspect of death -- Representing Death: -- Medicine, modernity and the risks of life -- The revival of death awareness -- Reporting death -- Experiencing Death: -- Falling from culture -- Awareness and control of dying -- Grief and resurrective practices. Part I. 1. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. 6. Part III. 7. 8. 9.

0521595096 (pb) 0521594308 (hb)

98012664


Death.

HQ1073. / S4 1998

306.9