Christine S. Davis

End of Life Communication

Stories from the Dead Zone

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This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience and fiction, to understand the relationship between them. The authors use complementary perspectives to examine what it means when we speak and think of death as it is conceived in cultural media and as it is constructed by and circulates between patients, health professionals, and supportive family members and friends.Layering analysis with evocative narrative and an intimate tone, with ch… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Crane, Jonathan L.

ISBN: 978-1-351-68411-8
EAN: 9781351684118
Produktnummer: 31310016
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 238 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'655 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Christine S. Davis is a Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests are in the intersection of family, culture, and health communication. Dr. Davis publishes regularly on topics such as children's health, end of life communication, family disability, and qualitative research methods. Jonathan L. Crane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC-Charlotte. He was written widely on genre and horror films and is the author of Terror and Everyday Life: Singular Moments in the History of the Horror Film (1994).