The Social Construction of Death

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 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 10 On the Deathly Construction of Society

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