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Volume 16 Issue 5 - 2007

Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century


372 Editorial
Allan Kellehear PhD

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 DipT, BEd, PhD

405 Practical Bereavement
Philip Bachelor

415 Death and Mourning in Technologically Mediated Culture
Margaret Gibson PhD

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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Call for Papers

Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People
Volume 17/3
Deadline: Closed


The Determinants of Child Health and Wellbeing
Volume 18/1
Deadline: Closed


Expert Patient Policy
Volume 18/2
Deadline: 15th Aug 2008


Cultures of Life: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
Volume 18/4
Deadline: 20th Feb 2009


Special Issues

Cultures of Life: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
Vol 18/4, 1st Dec 2009


Expert Patient Policy
Vol 18/2, 1st Jun 2009


The Determinants of Child Health and Wellbeing
Vol 18/1, 1st Apr 2009


Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for Biomedicine?
Vol 17/4, 1st Dec 2008


Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People
Vol 17/3, 1st Aug 2008


Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Vol 17/2, 1st Jun 2008


Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
Vol 16/5, 1st Dec 2007


Social Equity and Health
Vol 16/2, 1st Jun 2007


Medical Dominance Revisited
Vol 15/5, 1st Dec 2006


Childbirth, Politics & the Culture of Risk
Vol 15/4, 1st Oct 2006


Revisiting Sexualities and Health
Vol 15/3, 1st Aug 2006


Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill: Social Consequences
Vol 14/3, 1st Dec 2005


Workplace Health: The Injuries of Neoliberalism
Vol 14/1, 1st Aug 2005


Symposium on Rural Health: Patients and Practitioners
Vol 13/2, 1st Dec 2004


Symposium on Women's Health
Vol 13/1, 1st Apr 2004


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Selected Articles

Social Change and Social Capital in Australia
Jane Edwards, Brian Cheers PhD, Litza Graham


Research collaboration: A politico-ethical approach to effective partnerships
Cathy Hawes, Carolyn Emden RN, MEd, PhD


Collaborative Health Care Teams in Canada and the US
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Gillian Mulvale


Michael Crotty's phenomenology and nursing research
Catherine Garrett


The risks of lifestyle and the diseases of civilisation
Miranda Hughes


Symposium on Health, Illness and Spirituality
Charles Waddell


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