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9780415182928

Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415182928

  • ISBN10:

    0415182921

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-08-03
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Beyond the Bodypresents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the center of identity. They go "beyond the body" to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Preface ix
`Vegetables', `vampires' and other hybrids
1(19)
The dying body: visual representations
20(23)
Bodies without selves
43(18)
Medicalising the body
61(26)
Narratives of the body I: the coroner's court
87(17)
Narratives of the body II: the Church court
104(20)
Socialising the body
124(18)
Married life after death
142(18)
Ghosts, apparitions and occult phenomena
160(23)
Mediating the dead: spiritualists and clairvoyants
183(20)
Beyond the body
203(8)
Bibliography 211(11)
Index 222

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