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Volume 16 Issue 5 - 2007
Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
372 Editorial
Allan Kellehear
373 The mismanagement of dying
Beverley McNamara, Lorna Rosenwax
384 Death and the body beautiful: Aesthetics and embodiment in press portrayals of requested death in Australia on the edge of the 21st century
Fran McInerney
397 Avoiding death: The ultimate challenge in the provision of contemporary healthcare?
Kay Price, Julianne Cheek
405 Practical bereavement
Philip Bachelor
415 Death and mourning in technologically mediated culture
Margaret Gibson
425 Whatever happened to social class?: An examination of the neglect of working class cultures in the sociology of death
Glennys Howarth
436 Closing in on death?: Reflections on research and researchers in the field of death and dying
Jenny Hockey
Book Reviews
447 Talking with angel about illness, death and survival
Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino
Reviewed by Dorothy H Broom
448 Bodies at Risk: an Ethnography of Heart Disease
Elizabeth E Wheatley
Reviewed by Jeanne Daly
450 Xenotransplantation: Law and Ethics
Craig Fry
Reviewed by Sheila McLean, Laura Williamson
Assisted Dying: Reflections on the need for law reform
Sheila AM McLean
Reviewed by Romaine Rutnam
Call For Papers
Deadline: 28th July 2007
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