Hallam, Elizabeth 1967-

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.

0415182921 9780415182928


Death - Social aspects
Social identity
Body - Social aspects
Bereavement
Identity

362.104