Death and Institutions

Processes, Places and the Past

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual settings such as hospitals and cemeteries, or being confined to specific disciplines.

This interdisciplinary collection combines chapters on process, place and the past to examine the relationships both within and between institutions, institutionalization and death in international contexts.

Of broad appeal to students and academics in areas including social policy, health sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, history and the wider humanities, this collection spans multiple disciplines to offer crucial insights into the end of life, body disposal, bereavement and mourning.

Contributor: Devaleena Kundu (Contributions by), Chao Fang (Contributions by), Dan O'Brien (Contributions by), Anna Wilde (Contributions by), Hajar Ghorbani (Contributions by), Johanna Sumiala (Contributions by), Lindsay Udall (Contributions by), Renske Visser (Contributions by), Lee Moerman (Contributions by), Sandra van der Laan (Contributions by), Rhona Winnington (Contributions by), Sally Raudon (Contributions by), Shelby Zimmerman (Contributions by), Linda Pentikainen (Contributions by), Kate Woodthorpe (Edited by), Helen Frisby (Edited by), Bethan Michael-Fox (Edited by)

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