The Social Construction of Death

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

• Author(s): Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Pages: 278
• ISBN_10: 1137391928
  ISBN_13: 9781137391926
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / General , Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , History / Social History , Social Science / Sociology / General , Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism , Photography / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography , Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Theater / General ,

Description:... Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.
Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences – use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.