Beschreibung:
This book examines research on death, dying and bereavement, and how our perceptions shape what we can know about the end of life. It includes personal and professional reflections, and practical suggestions for conducting research in this field. Contributions were originally published in the Mortality journal and the Death Studies journal.
Preface Introduction: researching death, dying and bereavement 1. Reflecting on death: The emotionality of the research encounter 2. "Doing death": Reflecting on the researcher's subjectivity and emotions 3. Trans-Atlantic death methods: disciplinarity shared and challenged by a common language 4. Interpreting 'grief ' in Senegal: language, emotions and cross-cultural translation in a francophone African context 5. Images of fatal violence: negotiating the dark heart of death research 6. Auto/biographical approaches to researching death and bereavement: connections, continuums, contrasts 7. Negotiating post-research encounters: reflections on learning of participant deaths following a qualitative study