Steve Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Research Methods in the School of Health & Social Care at Teesside University. Steve has a background in social science. From 1990 to 2002 he was a Lecturer in Social Science at the University of Lincoln.Between 2002 and 2004 Steve was a Research Manager in the Community Evaluation Research Group, Social Futures Institute at Teesside University. His primary research interests are in health governance including death, dying, loss and care, social attitudes to ageing, illness and death amongst older people, and health inequalities.

• Foreword ; Introduction ; PART 1 - THEORISING DEATH AND LOSS ; 1. Death and community ; 2. Contemporary cultures of memorialisation: blending social inventiveness and conformity? ; 3. (Un)Regulating bereavement ; 4. Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing ; 5. Involvement and empowerment at the end of life: overcoming the barriers ; 6. Reviving sociability in contemporary cultural practices and concepts of death in Hong Kong ; PART 2 - PRINCIPLES INTO PRACTICE ; 7. The shameful death: implications for public health ; 8. A history of the project on death in America: programmes, outputs, impacts ; 9. Resilient communities ; 10. Transition from conventional to health promoting palliative care: an Australian case study ; 11. Neighbourhood network in palliative care - a public health approach to the care of the dying ; 12. Liberating dying people and bereaved families from the oppression of death and loss in Chinese societies: a public health approach ; 13. Letting it out of the cage: death education and community involvement ; 14. Spirituality and community practice

This is a useful and accessible book, with relevance to a wide readership. It provides some fascinating insights into practices of death and loss.

Steve Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Research Methods in the School of Health & Social Care at Teesside University. Steve has a background in social science. From 1990 to 2002 he was a Lecturer in Social Science at the University of Lincoln.Between 2002 and 2004 Steve was a Research Manager in the Community Evaluation Research Group, Social Futures Institute at Teesside University. His primary research interests are in health governance including death, dying, loss and care, social attitudes to ageing, illness and death amongst older people, and health inequalities.

• Foreword ; Introduction ; PART 1 - THEORISING DEATH AND LOSS ; 1. Death and community ; 2. Contemporary cultures of memorialisation: blending social inventiveness and conformity? ; 3. (Un)Regulating bereavement ; 4. Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing ; 5. Involvement and empowerment at the end of life: overcoming the barriers ; 6. Reviving sociability in contemporary cultural practices and concepts of death in Hong Kong ; PART 2 - PRINCIPLES INTO PRACTICE ; 7. The shameful death: implications for public health ; 8. A history of the project on death in America: programmes, outputs, impacts ; 9. Resilient communities ; 10. Transition from conventional to health promoting palliative care: an Australian case study ; 11. Neighbourhood network in palliative care - a public health approach to the care of the dying ; 12. Liberating dying people and bereaved families from the oppression of death and loss in Chinese societies: a public health approach ; 13. Letting it out of the cage: death education and community involvement ; 14. Spirituality and community practice

This is a useful and accessible book, with relevance to a wide readership. It provides some fascinating insights into practices of death and loss.

Steve Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Research Methods in the School of Health & Social Care at Teesside University. Steve has a background in social science. From 1990 to 2002 he was a Lecturer in Social Science at the University of Lincoln.Between 2002 and 2004 Steve was a Research Manager in the Community Evaluation Research Group, Social Futures Institute at Teesside University. His primary research interests are in health governance including death, dying, loss and care, social attitudes to ageing, illness and death amongst older people, and health inequalities.

• Foreword ; Introduction ; PART 1 - THEORISING DEATH AND LOSS ; 1. Death and community ; 2. Contemporary cultures of memorialisation: blending social inventiveness and conformity? ; 3. (Un)Regulating bereavement ; 4. Promoting the self through the arts: the transformation of private testimony into public witnessing ; 5. Involvement and empowerment at the end of life: overcoming the barriers ; 6. Reviving sociability in contemporary cultural practices and concepts of death in Hong Kong ; PART 2 - PRINCIPLES INTO PRACTICE ; 7. The shameful death: implications for public health ; 8. A history of the project on death in America: programmes, outputs, impacts ; 9. Resilient communities ; 10. Transition from conventional to health promoting palliative care: an Australian case study ; 11. Neighbourhood network in palliative care - a public health approach to the care of the dying ; 12. Liberating dying people and bereaved families from the oppression of death and loss in Chinese societies: a public health approach ; 13. Letting it out of the cage: death education and community involvement ; 14. Spirituality and community practice

This is a useful and accessible book, with relevance to a wide readership. It provides some fascinating insights into practices of death and loss.