The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

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The social construction of death: interdisciplinary perspectives

Brussel Van, Leen; Carpentier, Nico

Brussel Van, Leen; Carpentier, Nico

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Introduction / Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier -- A discourse-theoretical approach to death and dying / Leen Van Brussel -- Studying illness and dying through constructivist grounded theory / Linda Liska Belgrave and Kathy Charmaz -- Feeling bodies: analysing the unspeakability of death / John Cromby and Adele Phillips -- Representations of corpses in contemporary television / Tina Weber -- Ladies' choice? requested death in film / Fran Mcinerney -- The expertise of illness: celebrity constructions and public understandings / Daniel Ashton -- Death, fantasy, and the ethics of mourning / Jason Glynos -- Ethics, killing and dying: the discursive struggle between ethics of war and peace models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955-1959 / Nico Carpentier -- From theft to donation: dissection, organ donation and collective memory / Glennys Howarth -- Digital objects of the dead: negotiating electronic remains / Margaret Gibson -- "This in-between": how families talk about death in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness / Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger -- Afterword / Joachim Cohen

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