Death and Institutions

Processes, Places and the Past

Anna Wilde (University of Birmingham), Devaleena Kundu, Chao Fang (University of Liverpool) , Dan O'Brien (University of Bath)

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Bristol University Press
21 March 2025

Ethical issues: euthanasia & right to die; Sociology: death & dying

Series: Death and Culture

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual settings such as hospitals and cemeteries, or being confined to specific disciplines.

This interdisciplinary collection combines chapters on process, place and the past to examine the relationships both within and between institutions, institutionalisation and death in international contexts.

Of broad appeal to students and academics in areas including social policy, health sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, history and the wider humanities, this collection spans multiple disciplines to offer crucial insights into the end of life, body disposal, bereavement, and mourning.

Contributions by: Anna Wilde (University of Birmingham), Devaleena Kundu, Chao Fang (University of Liverpool), Dan O'Brien (University of Bath), Hajar Ghorbani (The University of Alberta)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529236668
ISBN 10: 1529236665
Series: Death and Culture
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 21 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

1. Introduction - Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby and Bethan Michael-Fox 2. Dying in Custody - Kate Gooch 3. Governing the Dead's Territory: The Politicisation of Death in Iran - Hajar Ghorbani 4. Nurses to the Arms: Gender, Palliative Care and the Institution of the Clinic - Julia Rehsmann 5. New York Ways of Death - Sally Raudon 6. ‘They Attached No Blame to the Staff in Charge’: The Role of Dublin Workhouse Officials in Preventing and Contributing to Institutional Mortality, 1872-1913 - Shelby Zimmerman 7. ‘The Children Singing Funeral Hymns Before the Corpse’: Schoolchildren in the Grand Urban Funerals of Eighteenth-Century England - Dan O’Brien 8. Care for The Dying in The Late USSR (1970-80s) - Sergei Mokhov 9. Nineteenth Century Intellectual Institutions and the Development of the Victorian Garden Cemetery - Lindsay Udall 10. Assisted Dying in New Zealand: Secrecy and Stigma - Rhona Winnington 11. Virtual Autopsies: Digitalising the Forensic Gaze - Marc Trabsky 12. Institutionalising Pregnancy Loss as Death of a Child? The Civil Status Amendment in Germany - Julia Böcker 13. The Market for Human Body Parts: Institutions, Intermediaries and Regulation - Lee Moerman and Sandra van der Laan 14. Conclusion - Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby and Bethan Michael-Fox

Kate Woodthorpe is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Helen Frisby is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Bethan Michael-Fox teaches and researches in the School of English and Creative Writing at the Open University.

Reviews for Death and Institutions: Processes, Places and the Past

“This collection offers clear and perceptive critical lenses to tropes about dying well, the ‘pejorative state’, necropolitics and the Death Positive Movement to name a few, which are soundly researched, timely and refreshing.” Ruth McManus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand