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Social research methods: a reader
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ISBN: 0415300835 0415300843 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Routledge

Constructing death : the sociology of dying and bereavement
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ISBN: 0511583427 051100267X 9780511002670 0521594308 0521595096 9780511583421 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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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.

Health and disease : a reader
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ISBN: 0335193269 0335192092 Year: 1995 Publisher: Buckingham : Open University Press,

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