Beyond the body: death and social identity /
Elizabeth Hallam, Jenny Hockey, Glennys Howarth.
- London : Routledge, 1999.
- 232 pages : 22 cm.
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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Death - Social aspects Social identity Body - Social aspects Bereavement Identity