Creative responses to a drug- or alcohol-related death: A sociocultural analysis

Illness Crisis and Loss

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 310-322

  Valentine, Christine ^a   Walter, Tony ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continuing bonds; creative practices; disenfranchised grief; memory making; stigmatized death and loss; traumatic loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955288717     PISSN: 10541373     EISSN: 15526968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054137315590733     Document Type: Article

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