When Death Goes Pop: Death, Media and the Remaking of Community

by Charlton D. McIlwain

Scholars, educators, health professionals, and activists from a variety of fields have struggled with one of the most significant questions of contemporary life: How do we rescue the experience of death and dying from the mire of fear, denial, and secrecy that it has been associated with for the better part of a century? In When Death Goes Pop, Charlton D. McIlwain describes a striking emerging shift in the way that death is represented in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820470643
• ISBN13: 9780820470641
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"