"Watch Over Us Sweet Angels": How Loved Ones Remember Babies in a Hospital Memory Book. (September 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Watch Over Us Sweet Angels": How Loved Ones Remember Babies in a Hospital Memory Book. (September 2016)
- Main Title:
- "Watch Over Us Sweet Angels"
- Authors:
- Cadge, Wendy
Fox, Nicole
Lin, Qiong - Abstract:
- This article considers how parents constructed social identities for babies who died before, at, or shortly after birth between 1992 and 2008 at Overbrook Hospital, a large academic medical center in the northeastern United States. We find that parents constructed their own and their children's social identities through deeply embodied shared senses of physicality, through processes of naming, and with a deep awareness of what they imagined would be ongoing relations. For many, these ongoing relations took place with an eye toward heaven. We situate our findings in historical context and draw out their theoretical implications for contemporary scholarship.
- Is Part Of:
- Omega. Volume 73:Number 4(2016)
- Journal:
- Omega
- Issue:
- Volume 73:Number 4(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 73, Issue 4 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 73
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0073-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 287
- Page End:
- 307
- Publication Date:
- 2016-09
- Subjects:
- infant mortality -- death -- embodiment -- continuing bonds -- afterlife -- heaven
Death -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals
Death -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Suicide -- Periodicals
306.9 - Journal URLs:
- http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?id=300329 ↗
http://ome.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0030222815590731 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0030-2228
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- Legaldeposit
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