Death dwells in spaces: Bodies in the hospital mortuary

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-146

  Horsley, Philomena A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Death; Hospital ethnography; Mortuary; Place

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEATH; EMOTION; ETHNOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE;

EID: 46449108899     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470802122040     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council. 2002. The national code of ethical autopsy practice. Adelaide: Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council.
2. Brysiewicz, Petra. 2007. The lived experience of working in a mortuary. Accident and Emergency Nursing 15: 88-93.
3. Casey, Edward S. 1993. Getting back into place: Towards a renewed understanding of the place-world. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
4. Cassell, Joan. 1998. The woman in the surgeon's body. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
5. _. 2005. Life and death in intensive care. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
6. Coleman, Elizabeth Burns, and Kevin White. 2006. Stretching the sacred. In Negotiating the sacred: Blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society, ed. E.B. Coleman and K. White, 65-77. Canberra: Australian National University.
7. Cregan, Kate. 2006. The sociology of the body: Mapping the abstraction of embodiment. London: Sage.
8. Csordas, Thomas J. 1994. Introduction: The body as representation and being-in-the-world. In Embodiment and experience: The existential ground of culture and self, ed. T.J. Csordas, 1-27. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
9. De Certeau, Michel. 1984. The practice of everyday life. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
10. Douglas, Mary. 1966. Purity and danger: An analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo. London, Boston and Melbourne: Ark Paperbacks.
11. _. 1970. Natural symbols: Explorations in cosmology. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.
12. Dovey, Kim. 2005. The silent complicity of architecture. In Habitus: A sense of place, ed. J. Hillier and E. Rooksby, 283-96. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
13. Fajans, Jane. 1983. Shame, social action, and the person among the Baining. Ethos 11, no. 3: 166-80.
14. Fox, Renee C. 1989. The sociology of medicine: A participant observer's view. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
15. Gell, Alfred. 1998. Art and agency: An anthropological theory. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
16. Griffen, Graeme M. 2000. Defining Australian death: Religion and the state. In Death and dying in Australia, ed. A. Kellehear, 40-51. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
17. Hallam, Elizabeth, and Jenny Hockey. 2001. Death, memory and material culture. Oxford, UK: Berg.
18. Hallam, Elizabeth, Jenny Hockey, and Glennys Howarth. 1999. Beyond the body: Death and social identity. London and New York: Routledge.
19. Hogle, Linda F., 2002. Introduction: Jurisdictions of authority and expertise in science and medicine. Medical Anthropology 21, no. 3-4: 231-46.
20. Jalland, Pat. 2006. Changing ways of death in twentieth-century Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.
21. Jewson, N.D. 1976. The disappearance of the Sick-Man from medical cosmology, 1770-1870. Sociology 10: 225-44.
22. Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar. [1979] 1986. Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
23. Leder, Drew. 1992. A tale of two bodies: The Cartesian corpse and the lived body. In The body in medical thought and practice, ed. D. Leder, 17-35. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
24. McDowell, Linda. 1996. Spatializing feminism: Geographic perspectives. In BodySpace: Destabilising geographies of gender and sexuality, ed. N. Duncan, 28-44. London and New York: Routledge.
25. Mol, Annemarie. 2003. The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
26. Nicol, Robert. 2000. Australian burial customs. In Death and dying in Australia, ed. A. Kellehear, 92-104. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
27. Norwood, Frances. 2006. The ambivalent chaplain: Negotiating structural and ideological difference on the margins of modern-day hospital medicine. Medical Anthropology 25: 1-29.
28. Obenson, Ken. 2003. Pathologists going 'live': Lessons from a developing country on giving a human face to pathology. Canadian Medical Association Journal 169, no. 12: 1309-10.
29. O'Mahony-Browne Research Consultants 2005. Dying and death in an acute hospital: Exploring the views and experiences of hospital staff. Drogheda, Ireland: O'Mahony-Browne Research Consultants for the Irish Hospice Foundation.
30. O'Neill, John. 1985. Five bodies: The human shape of modern society. Cornell: Cornell University Press.
31. Parker, Lisa. 1999. Bodies of desire: Human dissection in Australia. Masters thesis, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney.
32. Pile, Steve. 2005. Spectral cities: Where the repressed returns and other short stories. In Habitus: A sense of place, ed. J. Hillier and E. Rooksby, 235-57. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
33. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, and Margaret Lock. [1973] 1998. The mindful body: A prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology. In Understanding and applying medical anthropology, ed. P.J. Brown, 208-25. London and Toronto: Mayfield Publishing Company.
34. Timmermans, Stefan. 1999. Sudden death and the myth of CPR. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
35. Van der Geest, Sjaak. 2006. Between death and funeral: Mortuaries and the exploitation of liminality in Kwahu, Ghana. Africa 76, no. 4: 485-501.
36. Victorian Parliament Law Reform Committee 2006. Coroners Act 1985 - Final Report. Melbourne: Parliament of Victoria.