The Social Construction of Death

Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences - use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

Arnar Árnason, University of Aberdeen, UK Daniel Ashton, Bath Spa University, UK Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University, USA Joachim Cohen, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Belgium John Cromby, Loughborough University, UK Margaret Gibson, Griffith University, Australia Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK Glennys Howarth, Plymouth University, UK Jenny Kitzinger, Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, UK Celia Kitzinger, Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, UK Linda Liska Belgrave, University of Miami, USA Fran McInerney, Australian Catholic University and Mercy Health, Melbourne, Australia Adele Phillips, Birmingham University UK Leen Van Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Tina Weber, Technical University Berlin, Germany