http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/ Latest Articles Web Feed from Health Sociology Review http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/608 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/609 This paper develops discourse analysis of Australian press representations of dying during the operation of the Northern Territory of Australia's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 (McInerney 2006). Operating in tandem, the discourses of aesthetics and embodiment constructed contemporary dying as an intolerable corporeal state. The body in 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/610 The aim of this paper is to explore how the avoidance of death preoccupies the focus of most health professionals, including policy makers, in the western world, and the implications of this for the lives of people with chronic diseases. Avoiding death has become the ultimate challenge in the provision of contemporary healthcare. An implication of thi 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/611 It is well recognised that bereavement deals a significant impact on all individuals and societies, and yearning to be with a recent decedent is a common and almost universal grief response. How we strive to mitigate our loss by maintaining a sense of being in the presence of our loved one is not so well appreciated, yet this elicits perhaps the most 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/612 This paper explores the development of the sociology of death. It begins by tracing some of the major trends in sociology more generally that have influenced understandings of the social impact of mortality. The question is then raised as to why sociologists of death have hitherto largely failed to research into working-class cultures of death. Follow 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/1936 This paper examines the expansion of death and grief from private experience and spaces, into more public spheres via a range of media events and communication technologies. This shift is increasingly acknowledged and documented in death studies and media research. The modern experience of ‘sequestered death' has passed. Death images 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/613 This paper provides a critical overview of recent arguments within the field of research on death and dying. In so doing, it explores reasons for researchers choosing to work in this area, and how these might relate to questions of personal experience and the wider cultural and social contexts of researchers’ everyday lives. It discusses not 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/5/article/614 This paper reports on a recent population-based study of the last months of life of 1071 people in Western Australia who died from a chronic condition. Data was collected from death certificates and telephone interviews of primary carers who acted as proxies providing second hand accounts of the severity of the deceased person's symptoms and source 2007-12-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/3-4/article/541 The primary aim of this study is the exploration of the views of physicians in Barbados on the provision of a patient-focused health service. Qualitative interviews were conducted with fifteen physicians based at a teaching hospital in Barbados. The data was analysed in relation to literature on the physician-patient relationship with particular reference 2007-10-01 00:00:00 http://www.healthsociologyreview.com/archives/vol/16/issue/3-4/article/540 Many countries, including Australia, are currently experiencing severe shortages of professional, para-professional, and semi-professional workers in their health care systems. This is generally conceived as a problem stemming from rising demand in health care services or the production of inadequate numbers of health-related graduates. A qualitative 2007-10-01 00:00:00