
Talking Through Death
Communicating about Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Talking Through Death
Communicating about Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts
About this book
Talking Through Death examines communication at the end-of-life from several different communication perspectives: interpersonal (patient, provider, family), mediated, and cultural. By studying interpersonal and family communication, cultural media, funeral related rituals, religious and cultural practices, medical settings, and legal issues surrounding advance directives, readers gain insight into the ways symbolic communication constructs the experience of death and dying, and the way meaning is infused into the process of death and dying. The book looks at the communication-related health and social issues facing people and their loved ones as they transition through the end of life experience. It reports on research recently conducted by the authors and others to create a conversational, narrative text that helps students, patients, and medical providers understand the symbolism and construction of meaning inherent in end-of-life communication.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Trick or Treat: Communicating about Death in Culture and Play
- 2 Show and Tell: Communicating about Death in Fictional Narratives
- 3 Haunts and Hunts: Communicating about Death in Ghostly Lore
- 4 Fit to Print: Communicatine about Death in the News
- 5 Angels of Death: Communicating about Death in Medical Settings
- 6 Talk to Me: Communicating about Death in Family Settings
- 7 Between the Lines: Communicating about Death in Obituaries
- 8 Performing Lives: Communicating about Death in Funerals and Eulogies
- 9 Rhetoric of Decay: Communicating about Death in Cemeteries and Burials
- 10 The Final Word: Communicating about Death in Epitaphs
- 11 Worth Dying For: Communicating about Death in Monuments and Memorials
- Epilogue
- Index of Names
- Index of Topics