Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past
About this ebook
This interdisciplinary collection combines chapters on process, place and the past to examine the relationships both within and between institutions, institutionalization 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.
About the author
Kate Woodthorpe is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.
Helen Frisby is Visiting Research Fellow in 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.
