Remember me
Subtitle: constructing immortality
By: edited by Margaret Mitchell.
Contributors: Mitchell, Margaret, 1955-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Death -- Social aspects.; Death -- Psychological aspects.; Bereavement.
Table of contents: title: Constructing immortality : the role of the dead in everyday life / Margaret Mitchell; title: The rebirth of death : continuing relationships with the dead / Glennys Howarth; title: Sustaining kinship : ritualisation and the disposal of human ashes in the UK / Jenny Hockey, Leonie Kellaher & David Prendergast; title: Rachel comforted" : spiritualism and the reconstruction of the body after death / Joanna Bourke; title: Collective memory and forgetting : components for a study of obituaries / Bridget Fowler; title: Fever / Kathryn Hughes; title: Living on through death and donation : the body, property, law and ethics / Jennifer Westaway; title: The will : inheritance distribution and feuding families / Deirdre Drake; title: Complaints about health care in the UK following a person's death / Judith Allsop; title: Knowing by heart : remembering victims of intra-familial homicide / Carolyn Harris Johnson; title: Psychosocial death following traumatic brain injury / Camilla Herbert; title: Should suicides be reported in the media? / Gerard Sullivan; title: Family disputes, dysfunction, and division : case studies of road traffic deaths / Lauren Breen & Moira O'Connor; title: Dark tourism : the role of sites of death in tourism / John Lennon & Margaret Mitchell; title: Immortality work : photographs as memento mori / Halla Beloff; title: Art as afterlife : posthumous self presentation by eminent painters / Robert Wyatt; title: The eternal cadaver : anatomy and its representation / Monique Kornell; title: Representing trauma : the case for troubling images / Richard Read.