Governing Death and Loss

Empowerment, Involvement and Participation
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-958617-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

Political, economic, social, cultural and technological changes have led to profound transformations in the ways that death and loss are perceived and managed in contemporary society. Over the last few decades, the long term shift to chronic illness as a major causal factor has significantly increased the time scale of dying. Most people die in institutions and 'care' is typically medical. Many communities and ordinary citizens now relinquish control and involvement
to experts in the last stages of life.

At global and local levels, however, new arrangements are emerging to govern the changing face of death, and a reorientation model is being developed to counter claims of the 'creeping medicalisation' of death and dying. With an international authorship and scope, this book illustrates the interlinking nature of society, death and loss, and it gives examples of governance that promotes the empowerment, participation and the increasing need for the involvement of ordinary people and communities
in differing social and cultural contexts.

Chapters come from collaborations of academics and practitioners in end of life care - from sociologists, anthropologists or the arts but also from nursing, social work, or medicine. The result is a reflective, academic and practical discussion of the outline of the problem we face in the contemporary governance of death, and an exploration of the critical, theoretical and practice-based ways forward for us all.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate and postgraduate awards in: community work, health sciences, medicine, nursing, palliative care, public health, social work, social care, death and grief studies; and in, social anthropology, social policy, sociology, and psychology which include a focus upon health, or death and dying, or loss, or end-of-life care. Geriatricians, palliative care physicians, policy makers and those who commission palliative care and bereavement care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conway, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Geriatrie, Gerontologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Professor Allan Kellehear: Foreword
Steve Conway: Introduction
Part 1 - Theorising death and loss
1: Margaret Gibson: Death and community
2: Jenny Hockey: Contemporary cultures of memorialisation: blending social inventiveness and conformity?
3: Arnar Árnason: (Un)Regulating bereavement
4: Naomi Richards: Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing
5: Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft: Involvement and empowerment at the end of life: overcoming the barriers
6: Wing Hoi Chan: Reviving sociability in contemporary cultural practices and concepts of death in Hong Kong
Part 2 - Principles into practice
7: Steve Conway: The shameful death: implications for public health
8: David Clark: A history of the project on death in America: programmes, outputs, impacts
9: Allan Kellehear and Barbara Young: Resilient communities
10: John Rosenberg and Patsy Yates: Transition from conventional to health promoting palliative care: an Australian case study
11: Suresh Kumar: Neighbourhood network in palliative care - a public health approach to the care of the dying
12: Andy Hau Yan Ho and Cecilia Lai Wan Chan: Liberating dying people and bereaved families from the oppression of death and loss in Chinese societies: a public health approach
13: Nigel Hartley: Letting it out of the cage: death education and community involvement
14: Bruce Rumbold, Fiona Gardner and Irene Nolan: Spirituality and community practice

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Research Methods in the School of Health & Social Care at Teesside University. Steve has a background in social science. From 1990 to 2002 he was a Lecturer in Social Science at the University of Lincoln.
Between 2002 and 2004 Steve was a Research Manager in the Community Evaluation Research Group, Social Futures Institute at Teesside University. His primary research interests are in health governance including death, dying, loss and care, social attitudes to ageing, illness and death amongst older people, and health inequalities.