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This is a book about the ways and means through which death is socially organized in the city of Belfast. It is the first sociological study of death to take an entire city as subject. The author analyzes the various repsonses which were contingent upon 415 deaths registered in Belfast during 1981 and seeks to trace the numerous social, medical, legal, religious and political responses made to those deaths between the moment at which death was pronounced until the moment of disposal. In effect, Prior relates the sociology of medicine and the body to a sociology of death and dying.

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Author:   Lindsay Prior
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1989 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.316kg
ISBN:  

9780333464359

ISBN 10:   0333464354
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   15 May 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Death, disease and the body. Part 1 Public discourse: vocabularies of causation; categories of death; the pathology of death; accounting for death. Part 2 Private discourse: segregating the dead; the social distribution of sentiments; the disposal of dead persons; death, politics and the body. Conclusion - the discourses of death.

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