Understanding Baby Loss: The Sociology of Life, Death and Post-Mortem

by Elspeth Whitby, Julie Ellis, Professor Kate Reed

This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally invasive post-mortem to examine a range of sociologically pertinent issues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526191563
• ISBN13: 9781526191564
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 246 Pages