Dark tourism and the cadaveric carnival: Mediating life and death narratives at Gunther von Hagens' body worlds

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 685-701

  Stone, Philip R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body worlds; Dark tourism; Death; Mediation; Mortality; Thanatology

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; RESEARCH WORK; TOURISM;

EID: 80052040261     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2011.563839     Document Type: Article

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