Covid-19 and Death Studies : Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Lessons

Erica Borgstrom

ISBN 10: 1041199600 / ISBN 13: 9781041199601

Edité par Taylor & Francis Apr 2026, 2026

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Neuware - This book examines the profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on how people experienced dying, death and bereavement from early 2020 onwards. This interdisciplinary collection draws together international examples rooted in empirical research from death studies scholars to make sense of these impacts. The collection includes a wide range of insights from how personal and societal responses to the pandemic shaped the ways people talked and thought about death, to the provision of palliative and intensive care, and changes in funerary practices. The book demonstrates how social responses to the pandemic shaped death in this historical moment and explores potential lasting legacies, such as altered rituals. Curated from articles originally published in the journal Mortality with a new preface by the editors, this collection showcases why death studies is crucial for understanding not only the COVID-19 pandemic but also future pandemics and mass death events.

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• Titre: Covid-19 and Death Studies : Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Lessons
• Éditeur: Taylor & Francis Apr 2026
• Date de parution: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1041199600
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781041199601
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 170 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 170 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 599 grammes

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Synopsis

This book examines the profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on how people experienced dying, death and bereavement from early 2020 onwards. This interdisciplinary collection draws together international examples rooted in empirical research from death studies scholars to make sense of these impacts. The collection includes a wide range of insights from how personal and societal responses to the pandemic shaped the ways people talked and thought about death, to the provision of palliative and intensive care, and changes in funerary practices. The book demonstrates how social responses to the pandemic shaped death in this historical moment and explores potential lasting legacies, such as altered rituals. Curated from articles originally published in the journal Mortality with a new preface by the editors, this collection showcases why death studies is crucial for understanding not only the COVID-19 pandemic but also future pandemics and mass death events.

This volume will be essential reading for students, scholars, healthcare professionals, public health researchers and grief counsellors in medical anthropology, medical humanities, thanatology, sociology, bereavement studies and palliative care.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Mortality.

À propos de l?auteur

Erica Borgstrom is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She was Mortality Co-Editor-in-Chief from 2020 to 2024.

Bethan Michael-Fox is Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at The Open University in the United Kingdom. She has been the Mortality Managing Editor since 2020.

Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is Mortality Co-Editor-in-Chief.