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Death, gender, and ethnicity /

Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event of death is encountered. It brings together accounts of how these experiences are actually managed w...

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Other Authors: Field, David, 1942- (Editor), Hockey, Jennifer Lorna (Editor), Small, Neil (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Death > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Bereavement > Great Britain.
Terminal care > Great Britain.
Sex role > Great Britain.
Ethnicity > Great Britain.
Minorities > Great Britain.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Minorities.
Terminal care.
Hospice care.
Bereavement.
Sex factors in disease.
Attitude to Death > ethnology
Attitude to Death
Minority Groups
Terminal Care
Hospice Care
Bereavement
Sex Factors
Minority Groups > psychology
Terminal Care > statistics & numerical data
minorities.
mourning.
Great Britain > Social conditions.
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > ethnology
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203138449
9780203138441
9780415146784
041514678X
0203280458
9780203280454
9786610327218
6610327211
9781134756605
1134756607
9781134756551
1134756550
9781134756599
1134756593
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Making sense of difference
  • Death, gender and ethnicity in modern Britain / David Field
  • chapter 2 Death at the beginning of life / Alice Lovell
  • chapter 3 'Shoring up the walls of heartache'
  • Parental responses to the death of a child / Gordon Riches
  • chapter 4 Masculinity and loss / Neil Thompson
  • chapter 5 Women in grief
  • Cultural representation and social practice / Jenny Hockey
  • chapter 6 Death and the transformation of gender in image and text / Elizabeth Hallam
  • chapter 7 Beauty and the Beast
  • Sex and death in the tabloid press / Mike Pickering
  • chapter 8 Absent minorities?
  • Ethnicity and the use of palliative care services / Chris Smaje
  • chapter 9 Culture is not enough: a critique of multi-culturalism in palliative care
  • A critique of multi-culturalism in palliative / Yasmin Gunaratnam
  • chapter 10 Death, gender and memory
  • Remembering loss and burial as a migrant / Gerdien Jonker
  • chapter 11 Death and difference / Neil Small.

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