Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to Death and Dying

Chapter 3 Studying Illness and Dying through Constructivist Grounded Theory

Chapter 4 Feeling Bodies: Analysing the Unspeakability of Death

Chapter 5 Representations of Corpses in Contemporary Television

Chapter 6 Ladies’ Choice? Requested Death in Film

Chapter 7 The Expertise of Illness: Celebrity Constructions and Public Understandings

Chapter 8 Death, Fantasy, and the Ethics of Mourning

Chapter 9 Ethics, Killing and Dying: The Discursive Struggle between Ethics of War and Peace Models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955–1959

Chapter 11 From Theft to Donation: Dissection, Organ Donation and Collective Memory

Chapter 12 Digital Objects of the Dead: Negotiating Electronic Remains

Chapter 13 ‘This In-Between’: How Families Talk about Death in Relation to Severe Brain Injury and Disorders of Consciousness

Chapter 14 Afterword: The Social Construction of Death: Reflections from a Quantitative Public Health Researcher