1st Edition
Bereavement Narratives Continuing bonds in the twenty-first century
Introduction Part 1: Preserving and Affirming Personhood 1. Humanising a loved one’s dying 2. Constructing a good death 3. Dying moments Part 2: Absence and Presence 4. Defining loss 5. Materialising loss 6. Rediscovering presence 7. Locating and sustaining presence 8. Continuing bonds in contemporary society
Biography
Christine Valentine is a researcher and teacher at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath. She is currently based at the University of Tokyo comparing bereavement in the UK and Japan.
"By focusing on the continuing bond survivors maintain with the deceased, Valentine demonstrates how grief narratives are nested in the remembered relationship with the living person, in the story the person as he or she died, and in the culture's values and beliefs. Valentine has listened closely to stories of bereaved people in this well-done qualitative study, and in doing so, she has made a significant contribution to the current scholarly and clinical understanding of grief."
Dennis Klass, Professor Emeritus, Webster University, USA
