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Publication details of papers, where known, are given. Please inform Stephen White(WhiteSR@srgw.demon.co.uk) of any that are omitted.
Copies of the booklet of abstracts of the papers, Margaret Mitchell and Anne Marie Gilroy (eds), The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal 4th International Conference Proceedings (ISBN 190 1248518), can be purchased from John Smith & Sons, Glasgow Caledonian University Bookshop, CLIC Building, 70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, Tel/Fax: 0141-332-8778, Email: gc@johnsmith.co.uk, Website: http://www.johnsmith.co.uk
Shiela McLean, Law at the End of Life
Catherine Merridale, Death, Mourning and Memory in Soviet Russia
William Ian Miller, Fixin' To Die
Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut, The Social Context of Grief and Grieving
J. Appleton, A Peaceful Death: a concept analysis
Arnar Arnason, Remembering and Forgetting: grief, stories and the maintaining of relationships with the dead
Ann Baldwin, Facing the Challenge: teaching nurses communication skills to improve nurse - patient interaction with dying patients
Claudio Bardella, AIDS and the Recontextualisation of Death
T. Diane Cardin Barnes, In the Strangest Places: the phenomena of intramural burials in seventeenth century (sub-roman?) North Africa
Halla Beloff, Grief as a Weapon: Leslie Stephen's mausoleum home
John Beloff, Is This Our Lot? Another look at the idea of postmortem survival
Gillian Bennett and Anne Rowbottom, From People's Princess to People's Saint? The deification of Diana in the popular press and public opinion
Kate Bennett, Narratives of Death: a qualitative study of widowhood in women in later life
Sandra Bertman, Last Acts and the Existential Paradox: meaning-making and decision-making at the end of life
James Birrell, Mourning's Colour: The legacy of black in twentieth century painting
Joanna Bourke, Bloodied Consciences: face-to-face killing in twentieth century history
R. Melrose Brown, Word and Image: biblical suicide in visual culture
Seamus Burns, Voluntary Euthanasia in Australia: fair dinkum or sorcery?
Laurel Arthur Burton, Narrative Ethics and Requests for Assistance in Dying
A. Busuttil, The Forensic Pathologist and the Bereaved
Rachel Chambers, Towards a Cultural History of Grief: an exploration of the way christianity determined a mother's experience of grief 1550-1750
David Clark, Cradled to the Grave? Discourse of death and dying and the UK National Health Service 1948-67
Sheila Cook, An Exploration of the Meaning and Organisation of Spiritual Care in a Hospice
Angela Coster, Tempus Fugit: momento mori
\Phil Dalgarno, Self-induced Near-death Experience by Illicit Ketamine Users
Douglas Davies, From Titanic to Diana: the social category of offending deaths
Penelope J.E. Davies, The Phoenix and the Flames: death, rebirth and the imperial landscape of Rome
Mario Erasmo, Among the Dead: symbolic participation of the dead in ancient Rome
Catherine Exley, Last Orders: negotiating pre and after-death identities
David Field and Gina Copp, Open Ambiguity: communication and awareness about dying in the 1990s
Katherine Froggatt, "Fading like a Flower": understandings of death in a nursing home setting
Hilary J. Grainger, Golders Green Crematorium and the Architectural Expression of Cremation
Catherine Griffiths, "Now for an Awfully Big Adventure"
Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey, Motionless Memories: death, material culture and social space
Jill Hasnip and Pauline Smith, Cultures in Context: nursing homes and specialist palliative care settings
Jim Harold, Casting their Shadows
Jacob Helt, "The Dead Who Walk": materiality and liminality in Pere François Richard's "treatise of false revenants (1657) "
Camilla Herbert, Grief and Traumatic Brain Injury
Marcus Hostettler, Nurses, Funeral Directors and Dirty Work: the cultural context of working with the dead and dying
Glennys Howarth, Dismantling the Boundaries between Life and Death
Clare Humphreys, Providing "Soul-cures": death and dying in the early 'hospices' c1880 - c1939
Ken Jones, What's So Bad About Nothingness?
Jeane Katz, M. Sidell, and Carol Komaromy, Supporting Staff, Residents and Relatives when Someone Dies in Residential and Nursing Homes
Leonie Kellaher, Doris Francis, and Georgina Neophytou, A Bridge Between Two Worlds
Carol Komaromy, The Sight and Sound of Death
Gary Latchford, Death and the Doctor: a review of the impact of medical training on attitudes to death
Sarah Li, A Frame Analysis of Hospice Care
Anna Madill and Clare Martell, Female Medical Students' Experience of Human Dissection: ambiguity and conflict
Eileen McLeod, Developing Self-help Support Groups with Women with Secondary Breast Cancer
Ruth McManus, Silencing Suicide: an analysis of representations of suicide in late 1990s New Zealand
Meyer Meyer, "From the Darkest Shadow the Light of Truth": Victorian autopsy's role in concepts of life
Barry Mitchell, Where's the Gravity in Homicide?
Margaret Mitchell, Road Accidents and the Police: caring and coping
John D. Morgan, We Die and Grieve the Way that We are Taught to Do
Colleen J. Nordstrom, Measuring Quality of Life in Palliative Care: a critical review
Naomi J. Norman, "Perhaps It Will Be Dead In The Morning": children's burials and Roman social structure (later version published as 'Death and Burial of Roman Children: the case of the Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage - Part I, setting the stage' and 'Part II, the archaeological evidence', Mortality, 2002, 7(3), 302-323, and 2003, 8(1), 36-47.
Demetra M. Pappas, Deconstructing the Emerging Criminal Justice Policy Regarding Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Wake of the Recent United States Supreme Court Rulings
Gilly Pearce, Recording the History of a Movement: the hospice history project and oral history
Eva Reimers, Death and Identity: graves and funerals as cultural communication
Irene Renzenbrink, "Companions in Adversity": experiences of families and staff in a paediatric intensive care unit, Melbourne, Australia
Gordon Riches, Daughters' Dilemmas: problems of identity and grief resolution in adolescent girls whose widowed fathers remarry early
Sue Rabbitt Roff, "Now I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds": acceleration of rate of death in veterans of UK nuclear weapons tests
Linda Ruxton, The Procurator Fiscal and the Bereaved
Judith Sanchez-Flores, The Pagan/Primitive Conception of Death
Jane Elizabeth Seymour, Preserving the Integrity of the Natural Order: a dimension of "good" death in intensive care (published as 'Revisiting medicalisation and "natural" death', Social Science and Medicine, 1999, 49, 691-704.
D. Shewan, Not As Bad As It Should Have Been? Testing assumptions about risk and self-destruction among drug users
Sue Smith, Nursing at the Margins: the grey area between life and death
Craig Spence, A Place and a Time to Die: some observations on violent death in early modern London
Julie-Marie Strange, Burying Bodies: the cultural landscape of the late victorian cemetery
Danae Tankard, The Reformation of Death in Sixteenth-century London: the deaths of Sir Thomas Seymour and Sir Richard Gresham
Stuart Thompson, Death and the Other: some preoccupation's in western representations of Chinese death and thantopractices
Tina Tse, Coping with Pregnancy Termination
Helen Upright, How Medical Students Cope with Emotional Distress: attitudes towards dissection, death, and dying
Florence Vandendorpe, New Attitudes to Death in Belgium
Maria Vanezis and Ana McGee, Mediating Factors Following Sudden Bereavement: implications for practice in the accident and emergency setting
Peter Vanezis, Next of Kin Clinics: a new role for the forensic pathologist
Eric R. Varner, Punishment After Death: mutilation of images and corpses in imperial Rome
Bella Vivat, The First Modern Hospice was Set Up in Response to the Perception that Biomedical, Hospital-based Care did not Adequately Meet the Needs of Dying People
Ann B. Wakefield, An Exploratory Debate to Examine the Changes in Practice which Take Place when a Person is Categorised as Dying
Tony Walter, Body, Spirit and Reincarnation
Lisa Warner, Burial Beliefs and Practices in Pskov Province
Meira Weiss, Bereavement, Commemoration, and Collective Identity in Contemporary Israeli Society
Stephen White, Quartered, Drawn and Hung: art, law and corpses OR An Examination of the Anatomy Act
Joni Wilson, Bounded Realms and the Spirit of the Gift
Robert Wyatt, Art As Afterlife: painting the posthumous self
Rachel L. Abbott, Glynis Hale, and Peter Hawkins,The Comparison of Suicide Bereavement with Accidental Death and Natural Death Aanticipated and Sudden) Bereavement
Roy O'Connor and Noel P. Sheehy, Dicing with Death? Parasuicides in Northern Ireland
David Shewan, Not As Bad As It Should Have Been? Testing assumptions about risk and self-destruction among drug users
Bernard Moss, Bricks, Cement or Straw? The contribution of inter-active CD-Rom teaching material to work with the dying
Ann B. Wakefield and Alun C. Jones, An Introduction to Storytelling Practices in Nursing
Mckintosh Gallery, Like a Shadow: representations of death, dying and disposal in art
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