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

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

1989 edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9780333464359
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1989 edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 230
Weight: 316g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 14mm