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Social Death: Questioning the life-death boundary book cover

1st Edition

Social Death Questioning the life-death boundary

Edited By Jana Králová, Tony Walter Copyright 2017
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge
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Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases. With an individual, it can occur before or after physical death. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines have applied the concept to very diverse issues – including genocide, slavery, dementia, hospitalisation, and bereavement. Social death relates to social exclusion, social capital, social networks, social roles and... Read more

Foreword David Canter

1. What is social death? Jana Králová

2. Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home Glenys Caswell and Mórna O’Connor

3. Social death and the moral identity of the fourth age Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs

4. Social death in end-of-life care policy Erica Borgstrom

5. Post-mortem social death – exploring the absence of the deceased Annika Jonsson

6. To resist or to embrace social death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones Adela Toplean

7. (Social) Death is not the end: resisting social exclusion due to suicide Zohar Gazit

8. The agency of dead musicians Lisa McCormick

Biography

Jana Králová trained in social work in the Czech Republic and is currently completing a sociology Ph.D. on social death at the Centre for Death and Society, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.

Tony Walter is Honorary Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, UK. A sociologist, he has written widely on death in society.

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