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

by Lindsay Prior (Author)

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  Paperback
  1989

  $64.45

  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.