Remember me : constructing immortality / edited by Margaret Mitchell.

Other author Mitchell, Margaret.
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Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Subjects

Contents Constructing immortality : the role of the dead in everyday life / Margaret Mitchell -- The rebirth of death : continuing relationships with the dead / Glennys Howarth -- Sustaining kinship : ritualisation and the disposal of human ashes in the UK / Jenny Hockey, Leonie Kellaher & David Prendergast -- Rachel comforted" : spiritualism and the reconstruction of the body after death / Joanna Bourke -- Collective memory and forgetting : components for a study of obituaries / Bridget Fowler -- Fever / Kathryn Hughes -- Living on through death and donation : the body, property, law and ethics / Jennifer Westaway -- The will : inheritance distribution and feuding families / Deirdre Drake -- Complaints about health care in the UK following a person's death / Judith Allsop -- Knowing by heart : remembering victims of intra-familial homicide / Carolyn Harris Johnson -- Psychosocial death following traumatic brain injury / Camilla Herbert -- Should suicides be reported in the media? / Gerard Sullivan -- Family disputes, dysfunction, and division : case studies of road traffic deaths / Lauren Breen & Moira O'Connor -- Dark tourism : the role of sites of death in tourism / John Lennon & Margaret Mitchell -- Immortality work : photographs as memento mori / Halla Beloff -- Art as afterlife : posthumous self presentation by eminent painters / Robert Wyatt -- The eternal cadaver : anatomy and its representation / Monique Kornell -- Representing trauma : the case for troubling images / Richard Read.
LCCN 2006021854
ISBN0415954843 (hb)
ISBN9780415954846 (hb)
ISBN0415954851 (pbk.)
ISBN9780415954853 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1073.R457 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold