Introduction / Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier
A discourse-theoretical approach to death and dying / Leen Van Brussel
Studying illness and dying through constructivist grounded theory / Linda Liska Belgrave and Kathy Charmaz
Feeling bodies: analysing the unspeakability of death / John Cromby and Adele Phillips
Representations of corpses in contemporary television / Tina Weber
Ladies' choice? requested death in film / Fran Mcinerney
The expertise of illness: celebrity constructions and public understandings / Daniel Ashton
Death, fantasy, and the ethics of mourning / Jason Glynos
Ethics, killing and dying: the discursive struggle between ethics of war and peace models in the Cypriot Independence War of 1955-1959 / Nico Carpentier
From theft to donation: dissection, organ donation and collective memory / Glennys Howarth
Digital objects of the dead: negotiating electronic remains / Margaret Gibson
"This in-between": how families talk about death in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness / Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger
Afterword / Joachim Cohen.
The social construction of death : interdisciplinary perspectives. ISBN 9781137391902. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.