The Social Organisation of Death: Medical Discourse and Social Practices in Belfast

Prior, Lindsay

A study of the way in which death is socially organized in the city of Belfast. It analyzes the responses to 415 deaths registered here in 1981, tracing the social, medical, legal, religious and political responses made to those deaths from the time death was pronounced to the time of disposal.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1989-05-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333464359

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19918-1

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 230