| Contents |
Part 1. Theorising death and loss -- 1. Death and community / Margaret Gibson -- 2. Contemporary cultures of memorialisation: blending social inventiveness and conformity? / Jenny Hockey -- 3. (Un)Regulating bereavement / Arnar Arnason -- 4. Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing / Naomi Richards -- 5. Involvement and empowerment at the end of life: overcoming the barriers / Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft -- 6. Reviving sociability in contemporary cultural practices and concepts of death in Hong Kong / Wing Hoi Chan -- Part 2. Principles into practice -- 7. The shameful death: implications for public health / Steve Conway -- 8. A history of the project on death in America: programmes, outputs, impacts / David Clark -- 9. Resilient communities / Allan Kellehear and Barbara Young -- 10. Transition from conventional to health promoting palliative care: an Australian case study / John Rosenberg and Patsy Yates -- 11. Neighbourhood network in palliative care - a public health approach to the care of the dying / Suresh Kumar -- 12. Liberating dying people and bereaved families from the oppression of death and loss in Chinese societies: a public health approach , / Andy Hau Yan Ho and Cecilia Lai Wan Chan -- 13. Letting it out of the cage: death education and community involvement / Nigel Hartley -- 14. Spirituality and community practice / Bruce Rumbold, Fiona Gardner and Irene Nolan. |
