TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walter,Tony
TI  - On bereavement: the culture of grief 
T2  - Facing death
SN  - 0335200818
AV  - HQ1073 .W36 1999
U1  - 306.9 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Buckingham [England], Philadelphia
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Bereavement
KW  - Thanatology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index; pt. I. Living with the dead -- Other places, other times - War, peace, and the dead : twentieth-century popular culture -- Private bonds -- Public bonds : the dead in everyday conversation -- The last chapter -- Theories -- pt. II. Policing grief -- Guidelines for grief : historical background -- Popular guidelines : the English case -- Expert guidelines : clinical lore -- Vive la différence? : the politics of gender -- Bereavement care -- Conclusion : integration, regulation, and postmodernism
N2  - "'Insightful and refreshing.' - Professor Dennis Klass, Webster University Religion Department, St. Louis, USA'A tour de force.' - Dr Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych, President of CRUSESome societies and some individuals find a place for their dead, others leave them behind. In recent years, researchers, professionals and bereaved people themselves have struggled with this. Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is clear is that the grieving individual is not left in a social vacuum but has to struggle with expectations from self, family, friends, professionals and academic theorists.This ground-breaking book looks at the social position of the bereaved. They find themselves caught between the living and the dead, sometimes searching for guidelines in a de-ritualized society that has few to offer, sometimes finding their grief inappropriately pathologised and policed. At its best, bereavement care offers reassurance, validation, and freedom to talk where the client has previously encountered judgmentalism.In this unique book, Tony Walter applies sociological insights to one of the most personal of human situations. On Bereavement is aimed at students on medical, nursing, counselling and social work courses that include bereavement as a topic. It will also appeal to sociology students with an interest in death, dying and mortality."--Publisher description
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