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© 1989

The Social Organisation of Death

Medical Discourse and Social Practices in Belfast

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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Death, Disease and the Body

    1. Death, Disease and the Body
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 1-21

  3. Public Discourse

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 23-23
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    2. Vocabularies of Causation
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 25-46
    3. Categories of Death
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 47-66
    4. The Pathology of Death
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 67-86
    5. Accounting for Death
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 87-107

  4. Private Discourse

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 109-109
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    2. Segregating the Dead
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 111-132
    3. The Social Distribution of Sentiments
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 133-152
    4. The Disposal of Dead Persons
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 153-174
    5. Death, Politics and the Body
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 175-198
    6. Conclusion: Discourses on Death
      Lindsay Prior
      Pages 199-202
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 203-230
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

death organization organizations social organization

Authors and affiliations

  1. 1.Department of SociologyUniversity of UlsterJordanstownUK

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