Description
Contains accounts of unusual fieldwork with clairvoyants, exorcists and embalmers
At present no other book brings existing social theories of the body to bear exclusively on the dying and dead body
Medical sociology is increasingly focusing on the body
Well-known authors, widely published in this area
Table of Contents
1.Introduction PART ONE: Social Identity and Dying 2.Self-less Bodies 3.The Dying Body: Visual and Textual Representations 4.Silent Bodies and Narrative Strategies PART TWO: The Dead Body as a Site of Social Identity 5.The Medical Body Contested 6.The Legal Body 7.The Social Body PART THREE: Social Identity in the Absence of the Body 8.Married Life-after-Death 9. Disembodied Selves 10.Matter out of Place
