Understanding Baby Loss by Kate Reed
This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally invasive post-mortem to examine a range of sociologically pertinent issues relating to: 'trauma' 'emotions', 'decisions', 'care' 'technology' 'memory' and the role of 'social and biological relationships'. By shedding light on this taboo aspect of healthcare, the book provides a highly original contribution to sociology, offering a comprehensive analysis of some of the most pressing concerns in the field to date.Winner of British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2024
CHOICE: Recommended
'By shedding light on this taboo aspect of healthcare, the book provides a highly original contribution to the sociology of emotions, medical sociology, death and dying studies and science and technology studiesIt is a book that I wholeheartedly recommend to further advance understanding of perinatal bereavement and post-mortem care.'
Dr Kerry Jones, Senior Lecturer in End-of-Life Care, The Open University
Kate Reed is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester
Julie Ellis is a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield
Elspeth Whitby is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526191564 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526191563 |
| Title | Understanding Baby Loss |
| Author | Kate Reed |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2025-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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