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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Open University Press (1 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033520080X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0335200801
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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“This is an important book with its refreshingly new insights into the process of grief and the context of bereavement. It should be on the reading list of all practitioners and students of loss and bereavement.” – Ageing & Society (Ageing & Society )

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Some societies and some individuals find a place for their dead, others leave them behind. In recent years, researchers, professionals and bereaved people themselves have struggled with this. Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is clear is that the grieving individual is not left in a social vacuum but has to struggle with expectations from self, family, friends, professionals and academic theorists.

This ground-breaking book looks at the social position of the bereaved. They find themselves caught between the living and the dead, sometimes searching for guidelines in a de-ritualized society that has few to offer, sometimes finding their grief inappropriately pathologised and policed. At its best, bereavement care offers reassurance, validation, and freedom to talk where the client has previously encountered judgmentalism.

In this unique book, Tony Walter applies sociological insights to one of the most personal of human situations. On Bereavement is aimed at students on medical, nursing, counselling and social work courses that include bereavement as a topic. It will also appeal to sociology students with an interest in death, dying and mortality.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Magnificent piece of work., 25 Jun 2001
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Walter's book is radical and scholarly. The great strength of this book is that once you have finished it you want to explore the issues under consideration in kore depth and challenge your own conceptions of bereacement. Walter's account of bereavement makes compelling reading as it vividly details the medical and ideological discourses and practices that have helped constitute hundreds of years of taken for granted assumptions relating to bereavement. It is the most important book that has been published on bereavement in the last ten years and it is likely to remain at the forefront of the sociological literature on bereavement for several decades to come. This is a magnificent piece of work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another authoritative text in the 'Facing Death' series., 2 Aug 2000
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If there is a book that summarizes the world of the bereaved person in 2000, it is this one. It is certainly set to catapult our thinking forward on what constitutes bereavement. This book contains: angles, crop circles, Diana, euthanasia, Durkheim and palliative care: all of life is there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sociological rigour paired with an artistic lightness of touch, 23 Feb 2008
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Just to add to the previous reviews: I particularly enjoyed Walter's ability to be both part of the British grief culture he describes and to look at it as if he was an anthropologist coming from the outside, plus his readable, even entertaining writing style that is characterised by freshness and lightness of touch while remaining firmly grounded in academic rigour. One of the rare non-fiction works you want to read more than once!
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