Death Grief and Loss in the Context of COVID-19

<p>This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death dying and bereavement. </p><p>Through three parts: Reconsidering Death and Grief in Covid-19; Institutional Care and Covid-19; and the Impact of COVID-19 in Context the book explores COVID-19 as a reminder of our own and our communities’ fragile existence but also the driving force for discovering new ways of meaning-making performing rites and rituals and conceptualising death grief and life. Contributors include scholars researchers policymakers and practitioners accumulating in a multi-disciplinary diverse and international set of ideas and perspectives that will help the reader examine closely how Covid-19 has invaded social life and (re)shaped trauma and loss. </p><p>It will be of interest to all scholars and students of death studies biomedicine and end of life care as well as those working in sociology social work medicine social policy cultural studies anthropology psychology counselling and nursing more broadly.</p>