Name: Talking Through Death: Communicating About Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts
SKU: 51255779
Price: 1247.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Christine S. Davis; Deborah C. Breede
ISBN: 9781138231702

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Talking Through Death: Communicating About Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Routledge

Author

Christine S. Davis; Deborah C. Breede

Synopsis "Talking Through Death: Communicating About Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts "

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.