Death in a Global Age. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: McManus, Ruth
• Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Death Is Integral to Life; Death is socially mediated -- an example; Why study death?; Death around the globe; Aims and limitations of this book; The content of the book; 1 Perspectives and Theories on Death and Dying: New Horizons; Introduction; Enduring issues in the sociology of death and dying; Sociological perspectives and approaches; Sociological theories on death and dying; Modern death as death- denying; Death and globalization; Advanced modernity; Conclusion; Questions. 2 The Social Organization of Death and Dying: A New Paradigm EmergesIntroduction; Conceptualizing the boundary between life and death; The scientization of medicine; The institutionalization of medicine; The social control of death by medicine; A new social organization of dying and death: 9/ 11, hybrid humans and intercontinental organ farms; Conclusion; Questions; 3 Patterns in Life and Death: Demographic Trends and Life Expectancies; Introduction; Why counting the dead matters; Global flows of money and Russian life expectancy; Trading death: the tobacco industry. Global trends in death and dyingConclusion; Questions; 4 The Death Industries: Bespoke My Death; Introduction; The modern death care archetype; Death professionals; Experts for the dying; Experts for the recently dead; A new, advanced modern archetype for managing death; Conclusion; Questions; 5 Funerary Rites: Give Me a Decent Send-off; Introduction; Interment rites as practices of belonging; Taking belonging for granted; Belonging in a global age; Twenty- first- century interment concerns; Conclusion; Questions; 6 Grief: Solace in a Global Age; Introduction; What is grief? The social context and personal experience of grievingThe scientization of grief; Narrating continuous bonds; Grieving online; Cyber-solace; Conclusion; Questions; 7 Mass Death: Global Imaginaries; Introduction; The sociology of mass death; Current ways of managing mass death; Management: Responding to mass death crises; Prevention: Preventing mass death; Remembrance: Remembering mass death; Conclusion; Questions; 8 Religion: The De-secularization of Life and Death?; Introduction; Sociology, religion and death; Modernity and the disenchantment of death. Post-secularism: negotiating the non-negotiableReligion in post- secular death studies; Conclusion; Questions; 9 Representations of Mortality: Watching Real Death Is Good?; Introduction; Sacred and profane representations of death; Moral codes representing death; Representing death in advanced modernity; Fictional accounts of ordinary deaths; Actual accounts of ordinary deaths; Fictional accounts of extraordinary deaths; Factual accounts of extraordinary deaths; Conclusion; Questions; 10 Conclusion: Death in a Global Age; Questions; Notes; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.9; General; Death -- Social aspects; Grief; Terminal care; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Death -- Social aspects; Death -- Social aspects; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Grief; Terminal care; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Death & Dying; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1137292601; 9781137292605
• Related ISBNs: 9780230224513; 0230224512; 9780230224520; 0230224520
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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