Beyond the Body : Death and Social Identity (Hardcover)

1.Introduction PART ONE: Social Identity and Dying 2.Self-less Bodies 3.The Dying Body: Visual and Textual Representations 4.Silent Bodies and Narrative Strategies PART TWO: The Dead Body as a Site of Social Identity 5.The Medical Body Contested 6.The Legal Body 7.The Social Body PART THREE: Social Identity in the Absence of the Body 8.Married Life-after-Death 9. Disembodied Selves 10.Matter out of Place