Death and Institutions

Kate Woodthorpe is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Helen Frisby is Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Bethan Michael-Fox teaches and researches in the School of English and Creative Writing at The Open University.

• Introduction - Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby and Bethan Michael-Fox1. Culture as an Institution: Assessing Quality of Death in China - Chao Fang2. The Market for Human Body Parts: Institutions, Intermediaries and Regulation - Lee Moerman and Sandra van der Laan3. Secrecy, Judgement and Stigma: Assisted Dying in Aotearoa New Zealand - Rhona Winnington4. Institutional Thoughtlessness: Prison as a Place for Dying - Renske Visser 5. Out of the Ashes in New York City: Body Storage Bottleneck in COVID-19's First Wave - Sally Raudon6. Governing the Dead's Territory - Hajar Ghorbani 7. 'The Bluecoat Boys to Walk and Sing an Anthem before the Corpse': The Children of Christ's Hospital in London Funerals of the 18th Century - Dan O'Brien8. Inside-Out and Outside-In: Learned Institutions and Garden Cemeteries in 19th-Century Britain - Lindsay Udall9. ‘They Attached No Blame to the Staff in Charge': The Role of Dublin Workhouse Administration in Preventing and Contributing to Institutional Mortality, 1872–1913 - Shelby Zimmerman10. Tenets and Tensions: A Critical Exploration of the Death Positive Movement - Anna Wilde11. Representations of Immortality and Institutions in 21st-Century Popular Culture - Devaleena Kundu and Bethan Michael-Fox 12. ‘I Was So Lost … And Who Brought You Back? Me.' - Deathstyle Gurus and the New Institutional Logics of Mourning on Instagram - Johanna Sumiala and Linda PentikäinenAfterword - Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby and Bethan Michael-Fox

“This collection offers clear and perceptive critical lenses to tropes about dying well, the ‘pejorative state’, necropolitics and the Death Positive Movement to name a few, which are soundly researched, timely and refreshing.” Ruth McManus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand