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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172257403321

Titolo

Death, gender, and ethnicity / / edited by David Field, Jenny Hockey, and Neil Small

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-75659-3

9786610327218

1-134-75660-7

1-280-32721-9

0-203-13844-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FieldDavid <1942->

HockeyJennifer Lorna

SmallNeil

Disciplina

306.9

Soggetti

Death - Social aspects - Great Britain

Bereavement - Great Britain

Terminal care - Great Britain

Sex role - Great Britain

Ethnicity - Great Britain

Minorities - Great Britain

Great Britain Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""

Sommario/riassunto

Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event of death is encountered. It brings together accounts of how these experiences are actually managed with analyses of a range of representations of dying and grieving in order to provide a more theoretical approach to the relationship between death, gender and ethnicity. Though death and dying have been an increasingly important focus for academics and clinicians over the last thirty years, much of