Death and Institutions
Processes, Places and the Past
Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, death and bereavement, yet research is often limited to specific settings or disciplines. This collection examines the relationships within and between institutions and death across global contexts, offering insights into processes, places and perceptions.
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, institutionalisation 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.
Kate Woodthorpe is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.
Helen Frisby is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.
Bethan Michael-Fox teaches and researches in the School of English and Creative Writing at the Open University.
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