Death in the Modern World

Tony Walter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2020
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-5264-0293-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How important are culture, the physical environment, national histories, national laws and institutions, and globalization? This is the first book to look at how all these different factors shape death and dying in the modern world.



Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, economic in/security, risk, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people’s experiences of dying and grief.



Essential reading for students, researchers and professionals across sociology, anthropology, social work and healthcare, and for anyone who wants to understand how countries around the world manage death and dying.

Autor

Tony Walter is Emeritus Professor of Death Studies at the University of Bath, UK. His research into death and society has included end of life care, social networks and care, funeral practice, bereavement, spiritualism, belief in reincarnation, the idea that the dead become angels, mass media and social media, pilgrimage, and the use of human remains in exhibitions. He has lectured around the world, and has also trained clergy and funeral celebrants. His seventeen books include Funerals (1990), Pilgrimage in Popular Culture (1993), The Revival of Death (1994), The Eclipse of Eternity (1996), On Bereavement (1999), and What Death Means Now (2017). Before 1994, he was freelance, writing books and articles on religion, landscape, social security reform, and basic income.  

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: MODERNITY
1.Longevity
2.Medicine
3.Commodification
4.Communication
5.Death denial?
PART II: RISK
6.Security and insecurity
7.The physical world
PART III: CULTURE
8.Individual and group
9.Family
10.Religion
PART IV: NATION
11.Modernizing the nation
12.War
13.Policy and politics
PART V: GLOBALIZATION
14.Global flows
15.Death’s futures

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 610 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-5264-0293-9 / 1526402939
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5264-0293-6 / 9781526402936
• Zustand: Neuware