Many cultures have distinguished between biological and social death, the latter usually
occurring some time after the former. More recently social death has been noted to occur …

This authoritative text offers the first comprehensive analysis of intergenerational relations
and social welfare. It examines both the micro-sociological relations within the family and the …

It is impossible in a short review to do justice to all those individual contributions, most of
which are interesting in their own right… Whilst this book is likely to be of particular interest …

This paper sets out an argument for the re-imagining of care in social policy on three
interrelated grounds: epistemological–theoretical, substantive socio-historical, and …

The view that palliative care should move beyond cancer is widely endorsed, however, there
remains a lack of clarity about the level at which this should occur. In order to target the …

In this paper, I employ a grounded theory approach to extend an existing theory. My starting
point is the theory of awareness contexts, first formulated in 1965 by Strauss and Glaser …

The understanding of death, dying and bereavement in relation to society is indebted to a
number of disciplines–anthropology, history, psychology and sociology are surveyed …

The social issues of death, dying and bereavement represent important but neglected
research areas, and such issues need attention both for practical reform and for deciphering …

The emergence of the speciality of palliative medicine in the UK has been generally
welcomed and can be seen as a continuation of the attempts to improve the care of dying …

Women predominate among elderly people, especially at the oldest ages. Older women are
more likely to be widowed and, in the UK, USA and other developed countries, to live alone …