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This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.
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Editors and Affiliations
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JAN BLEYEN is an assistant at the research unit, Modernity and Society 1800-2000 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
ANDY CLAYDEN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, UK
DOUGLAS J. DAVIES is Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham University, UK and Director of The Durham Centre for Death and Life Studies
CLARE GITTINGS works at the National Portrait Gallery, UK
SHEILA HARPER is a post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sydney, Australia
LEONIE KELLAHER is Emeritus Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK
SUSANNE LANGER is a Research Associate at the Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, UK
UNA MACCONVILLE is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK
REGINA MCQUILLAN is a Palliative Medicine Consultant working at St. Francis Hospice, and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
SUSIE PAGE works freelance, lecturing at both Oxford and Greenwich Universities, UK
MARK POWELL is Research Associate at Durham University, UK
DAVID PRENDERGAST is a Social Anthropologist in the Digital Health group at Intel and a Principal Investigator of the Social Connection Strand of the Dublin based Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre, UK
CAROLINE SIMONE is Joint Honours Subject Leader of Applied Studies, University of Derby, UK
TONY WALTER runs the MSc in Death& Society at the University of Bath, UK
KATE WOODTHORPE is Lecturer in Sociology at the Centre for Death and Society in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath, UK
KEN WORPOLE is Senior Professor in The Cities Institute at London Metropolitan University, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Matter of Death
Book Subtitle: Space, Place and Materiality
Editors: Jenny Hockey, Carol Komaromy, Kate Woodthorpe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283060
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22416-2Published: 16 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30910-8Published: 16 July 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28306-0Published: 16 July 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 270
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Policy, Medical Sociology, Nature Conservation, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging