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Seale demonstrates how health messages in popular mass media are important influences in our lives, and that they are not neutral, being subject to many determining influences.

Sociology of health --- Mass communications --- Health in mass media. --- Mass media --- Health in mass media --- #SBIB:309H1020 --- #SBIB:309H402 --- #SBIB:309H504 --- #SBIB:316.334.3M20 --- Mediaboodschappen: algemene werken (met inbegrip van genres, taalgebruik en historiek) --- Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, .. --- Code en boodschap: sociologische, antropologische benadering --- Sociale epidemiologie en etiologie: sociale aspecten van ziekte en gezondheid --- Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, . --- Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media,

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A basic motivation for social and cultural life is the problem of death. By analysing the experiences of dying and bereaved people, as well as institutional responses to death, Clive Seale shows its importance for understanding the place of embodiment in social life. He draws on a comprehensive review of sociological, anthropological and historical studies, including his own research, to demonstrate the great variability that exists in human social constructions for managing mortality. Far from living in a 'death denying' society, dying and bereaved people in contemporary culture are often able to assert membership of an imagined community, through the narrative reconstruction of personal biography, drawing on a variety of cultural scripts emanating from medicine, psychology, the media and other sources. These insights are used to argue that the maintenance of the human social bond in the face of death is a continual resurrective practice, permeating everyday life.

Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Social aspects. --- Bereavement --- Mort --- Deuil --- Social Sciences --- Sociology