Deconstructing death
Subtitle: changing cultures of death, dying, bereavement and care in the Nordic countries
By: edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Series: University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences -- vol. 457; University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences -- v. 457.
Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Odense
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9788776745950
Subjects: Death; Congresses; Bereavement; Mourning customs; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Care of the sick
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the cultural construction and deconstruction of death : changing cultures of death, dying, bereavement and care in the Nordic countries  -- Michael Hviid Jacobsen; title: Changing cultural, social and professional contexts of death and dying --; title: A revival of death? : death, dying and bereavement in contemporary society  -- Vibeke Poulsen Graven, Louise Lund & Michael Hviid Jacobsen; title: Death and dying in the Nordic countries : three personal images  -- Anna Whitaker; title: Educated to death : the disciplinary and national development of 'Death education' : Danish and American examples, experiences and perspectives  -- Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Michael C. Kearl; title: Messages from the otherworld : the roles of the dead in Medieval Iceland  -- Kirsi Kanerva; title: Over the limit : religious culture as a hidden factor in negative decisions on organ donation in the protestant Nordic countries  -- Anne Kjœrsgaard Markussen; title: Changing mourning rituals and memorial cultures --; title: Memorialisation : materialising and locating grief and loss  -- Anna Petersson; title: An existence after death : conceptions of faith as expressed on memorial internet websites in Norway and Sweden  -- Anders Gustavsson; title: Lighting candles as ritualization of death  -- Olaf Aagedal; title: Rituals of death in a Norwegian school context  -- Ida Marie Hoeg; title: Changing contexts and conceptions of care, compassion and community --; title: Controlling dying : physicians narrating end-of-life issues  -- Leila Jylhänkangas; title: Inter-professional palliative care : developing and outlining syllabi and curricula in educational programmes in palliative care in Denmark  -- Kirsten Halskov Madsen, Anette Meldgaard & Jette Henriksen; title: Dying behind the scenes of society : palliative care in alternative nursing homes for socially vulnerable people  -- Aya Mortag Freund; title: "All the lonely people -- " : living and dying alone in the shadow of the Danish welfare state  -- Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Ida Holst; title: Two faces of death : 'Good' and 'Bad' deaths in contemporary palliative care -- Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Karen Marie Dalgaard-- List of contributors.