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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Death Care"”.
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Intimate Deathscapes: Examining Alternative Discourses of the Dead Body and Death Care Spaces
Over the last two centuries Western death care has undergone a gradual process of defeminization, professionalization, and medicalization. It has also grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry and is now facing criticism for practices that are financially exploitive, environmentally harmful, and …
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Death Positive: An Analysis of an Authenticity Movement
The death care industry encompasses a wide variety of death related services, such as funerals and cremations, in order to prevent or eradicate decay. Problems in death management, such as a history of inauthenticity and lack of transparency, have led to dissatisfaction in care. As a result of the …
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Journeying on to a better place? The processes and experiences associated with working around death and dying in care homes for older people.
… was undertaken during a period of change within care homes for the older person in Scotland. The move to single status homes meant that the traditional divide between nursing and residential homes no longer existed. The experiences of workers were largely under-represented in literature and …