Death, gender, and ethnicity / edited by David Field, Jenny Hockey, and Neil Small. - xiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Making sense of difference: death, gender and ethnicity in modern Britain -- Death at the beginning of life -- 'Shoring up the walls of heartache': parental responses to the death of a child -- Masculinity and loss -- Women in grief: cultural representation and social practice -- Death and the transformation of gender in image and text -- Beauty and the Beast: sex and death in the tabloid press -- Absent minorities? Ethnicity and the use of palliative care services -- Culture is not enough: a critique of multi-culturalism in palliative care -- Death, gender and memory: remembering loss and burial as a migrant -- Death and difference -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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Death--Social aspects--Great Britain
Bereavement--Great Britain
Terminal care--Great Britain
Sex role--Great Britain
Ethnicity--Great Britain
Minorities--Great Britain


Great Britain--Social conditions

HQ1073.5.G7 / D425 1997

306.9