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Chapter 12 This in-between How families talk about death in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness

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Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying on...

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Main Author: Kitzinger, Celia Clare (auth)
Other Authors: Kitzinger, Jenny (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2014
Subjects:
Cultural studies
Media studies
Sociology
Sociology: death & dying
social constructivist research
death
social constructionist research
thanatology
Brain death
Consciousness
Disorders of consciousness
Family
Health technology in the United States
Life support
Minimally conscious state
Persistent vegetative state
Traumatic brain injury
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