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 relating to: 'trauma' 'emotions', 'decisions', 'care' 'technology' 'memory' and the role of 'social and biological relationships'. By shedding light on this taboo aspect of healthcare, the book provides a highly original contribution to sociology, offering a comprehensive analysis of some of the most pressing concerns in the field to date.
| ISBN: | 9781526163189 |
| Publication date: | 21st November 2023 |
| Author: | Kate Reed, Julie Ellis, Elspeth H Whitby |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Genres: |
Sociology: death and dying Coping with / advice about death and bereavement Medical sociology |