Death and Institutions
Processes, Places and the Past
Edited by Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby and Bethan Michael-Fox
ISBN
978-1529236668Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529236675Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Death and Institutions
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.
“This collection offers clear and perceptive critical lenses to tropes about dying well, the ‘pejorative state’, necropolitics and the death positive movement to name a few, which are soundly researched, timely and refreshing.” Ruth McManus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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.
Introduction
1. Culture as an Institution: Assessing Quality of Death in China - Chao Fang
2. The Market for Human Body Parts: Institutions, Intermediaries and Regulation - Lee Moerman and Sandra van der Laan
3. Secrecy, Judgement and Stigma: Assisted Dying in Aotearoa New Zealand - Rhona Winnington
4. Institutional Thoughtlessness: Prison as a Place for Dying - Renske Visser
5. Out of the Ashes in New York City: Body Storage Bottleneck in COVID-19's First Wave - Sally Raudon
6. Governing the Dead's Territory - Hajar Ghorbani
7. 'The Bluecoat Boys to Walk and Sing an Anthem before the Corpse': The Children of Christ's Hospital in London Funerals of the 18th Century- Dan O'Brien
8. Inside-Out and Outside-In: Learned Institutions and Garden Cemeteries in 19th-Century Britain - Lindsay Udall
9. ‘They Attached No Blame to the Staff in Charge': The Role of Dublin Workhouse Administration in Preventing and Contributing to Institutional Mortality, 1872-1913 - Shelby Zimmerman
10. Tenets and Tensions: A Critical Exploration of the Death Positive Movement - Anna Wilde
11. Representations of Immortality and Institutions in 21st-Century Popular Culture - Devaleena Kundu and Bethan Michael-Fox
12. ‘I Was So Lost … and Who Brought You Back? Me?' - Deathstyle Gurus and the New Institutional Logics of Mourning on Instagram - Linda Pentikäinen and Johanna Sumiala
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