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Title:

Deconstructing death : changing cultures of death, dying, bereavement and care in the Nordic countries / edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen.

Publisher:

University Press of Southern Denmark,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Death--Social aspects--Scandinavia--Congresses.
Bereavement--Scandinavia--Congresses.
Mourning customs--Scandinavia--Congresses.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Scandinavia--Congresses.
Care of the sick--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971-

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held at Aalborg, Denmark in November 2010. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Changing mourning rituals and memorial cultures -- Anne Kj¿rsgaard Markussen -- Changing cultural, social and professional contexts of death and dying -- A revival of death? : death, dying and bereavement in contemporary society / Vibeke Poulsen Graven, Louise Lund & Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Death and dying in the Nordic countries : three personal images / Anna Whitaker -- Educated to death : the disciplinary and national development of 'Death education' : Danish and American examples, experiences and perspectives / Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Michael C. Kearl -- Messages from the otherworld : the roles of the dead in Medieval Iceland / Kirsi Kanerva -- Over the limit : religious culture as a hidden factor in negative decisions on organ donation in the protestant Nordic countries / Anne Kj¿rsgaard Markussen -- Changing mourning rituals and memorial cultures --
"All the lonely people -- " : living and dying alone in the shadow of the Danish welfare state / Aya Mortag Freund -- An existence after death : conceptions of faith as expressed on memorial internet websites in Norway and Sweden / Anders Gustavsson -- Lighting candles as ritualization of death / Olaf Aagedal -- Rituals of death in a Norwegian school context / Ida Marie Hoeg -- Changing contexts and conceptions of care, compassion and community -- Controlling dying : physicians narrating end-of-life issues / Leila Jylh©Þnkangas -- Inter-professional palliative care : developing and outlining syllabi and curricula in educational programmes in palliative care in Denmark / Kirsten Halskov Madsen, Anette Meldgaard & Jette Henriksen -- Dying behind the scenes of society : palliative care in alternative nursing homes for socially vulnerable people / Aya Mortag Freund -- "All the lonely people -- " : living and dying alone in the shadow of the Danish welfare state /
Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Karen Marie Dalgaard -- Two faces of death : 'Good' and 'Bad' deaths in contemporary palliative care / Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Karen Marie Dalgaard -- List of contributors.

Series:

University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences ; vol. 457

ISBN:

8776745953
9788776745950

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857401769

LCCN:

2013474758

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)