Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts.

Erica Borgstrom is Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She leads Open Thanatology, the Open University’s interdisciplinary research group for the study and education of death, dying, loss and grief across the life course, and is co-editor in chief for the interdisciplinary journal Mortality and Bristol University Press book series Death and Culture.

Renske Visser is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu in Finland. She runs blog Dead Good Reading (www.deadgoodreading.com) featuring books about death, dying and loss. She also co-hosts The Death Studies Podcast. She was previously the administrator for the Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS).