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Beyond the body: death and social identity / Elizabeth Hallam, Jenny Hockey, Glennys Howarth.

By: Hallam, Elizabeth, 1967- [author.]Contributor(s): Hockey, Jenny [author.] | Howarth, Glennys [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1999Description: 232 pages : 22 cmISBN: 0415182921; 9780415182928Subject(s): Death - Social aspects | Social identity | Body - Social aspects | Bereavement | IdentityDDC classification: 362.104
Contents:
chapter 1 Vegetables, vampires and other hybrids -- chapter 2 The dying body: visual representations -- chapter 3 Bodies without selves -- chapter 4 Medicalising the body -- chapter 5 Narratives of the body I: the coroner's court -- chapter 6 Narratives of the body II: the Church court -- chapter 7 Socialising the body -- chapter 8 Married life after death -- chapter 9 Ghosts, apparitions and occult phenomena -- chapter 10 Mediating the dead: spiritualists and clairvoyants -- chapter 11 Beyond the body.
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Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 362.104 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R32040Y0085
Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 362.104 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R32058W0085
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.


chapter 1 Vegetables, vampires and other hybrids -- chapter 2 The dying body: visual representations -- chapter 3 Bodies without selves -- chapter 4 Medicalising the body -- chapter 5 Narratives of the body I: the coroner's court -- chapter 6 Narratives of the body II: the Church court -- chapter 7 Socialising the body -- chapter 8 Married life after death -- chapter 9 Ghosts, apparitions and occult phenomena -- chapter 10 Mediating the dead: spiritualists and clairvoyants -- chapter 11 Beyond the body.

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