Recently added articles from Health Sociology Review:

The mismanagement of dying

Dec 01, 2007; McNamara, Beverley; Rosenwax, Lorna ... ABSTRACT This paper reports on a recent population-based study of the last months of life of 1071 people in Western Australia who died from a chronic condition. Data was collected from death certificates and telephone interviews of primary carers who acted as proxies providing second ...

Death and the body beautiful: Aesthetics and embodiment in press portrayals of requested death in Australia on the edge of the 21st century

Dec 01, 2007; McInerney, Fran ... ABSTRACT This paper develops discourse analysis of Australian press representations of dying during the operation of the Northern Territory of Australia's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 (McInerney 2006). Operating in tandem, the discourses of aesthetics and embodiment constructed ...

Avoiding death: The ultimate challenge in the provision of contemporary healthcare?

Dec 01, 2007; Price, Kay; Cheek, Julianne ... ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to explore how the avoidance of death preoccupies the focus of most health professionals, including policy makers, in the western world, and the implications of this for the lives of people with chronic diseases. Avoiding death has become the ultimate ...

Practical bereavement

Dec 01, 2007; Bachelor, Philip ... ABSTRACT It is well recognised that bereavement deals a significant impact on all individuals and societies, and yearning to be with a recent decedent is a common and almost universal grief response. How we strive to mitigate our loss by maintaining a sense of being in the presence of ...

Death and mourning in technologically mediated culture

Dec 01, 2007; Gibson, Margaret ... ABSTRACT This paper examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into more public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and media research. The modern ...

Whatever happened to social class? An examination of the neglect of working class cultures in the sociology of death

Dec 01, 2007; Howarth, Glennys ... ABSTRACT This paper explores the development of the sociology of death. It begins by tracing some of the major trends in sociology more generally that have influenced understandings of the social impact of mortality. The question is then raised as to why sociologists of death have ...

Closing in on death? Reflections on research and researchers in the field of death and dying

Dec 01, 2007; Hockey, Jenny ... ABSTRACT This paper provides a critical overview of recent arguments within the field of research on death and dying. In so doing, it explores reasons for researchers choosing to work in this area, and how these might relate to questions of personal experience and the wider cultural and ...

TALKING WITH ANGEL ABOUT ILLNESS, DEATH AND SURVIVAL

Dec 01, 2007; Broom, Dorothy ... TALKING WITH ANGEL ABOUT ILLNESS, DEATH AND SURVIVAL Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino Edinburgh: Floris Books 2005, PB 205 pp, AUD 28.95 ISBN 0 86315 492 1 This is the sort of book I feel I ought to like, and it is almost embarrassing to confess that I don't. It comes enthusiastically ...

BODIES AT RISK: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF HEART DISEASE

Dec 01, 2007; Daly, Jeanne ... BODIES AT RISK: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF HEART DISEASE Elizabeth E Wheatley Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate 2006, HB 135 pp, GBP 45.00 ISBN 0 7546 4307 7 When I was sent this book for review my first response was, 'Oh, no, this is the book I want to write!' That could have made me ...

XENOTRANSPLANTATION: LAW AND ETHICS

Dec 01, 2007; Fry, Craig ... XENOTRANSPLANTATION: LAW AND ETHICS Sheila McLean and Laura Williamson Hampshire, England: Ashgate 2005, HB 290 pp, USD 94.95/GBP 55.00 ISBN 0-7546-2379-3 McLean and Williamson's 'Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics' is an impressive piece of scholarship on a complex issue in public ...

EDITORIAL

Dec 01, 2007; Kellehear, Allan ... I am very pleased to introduce HSR readers to this special issue on death and dying. Seven excellent papers appear in this issue examining a range of contemporary issues and questions from bereavement and the (mis)management of dying to the role of the body or death denial in policy formulation ...