GRIEF, MOURNING AND DEATH RITUAL
Jenny Hockey, Jeanne Katz, and Neil Small (Editors)
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Open University Press, 2001
286 pp
ISBN 0-335-20501-1
RRP: £22 $US 30.95 
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This book gathers together a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and descriptive accounts of grief, mourning and death ritual. These
three subjects form the basis of the tree sections of the book. Each starts with a critical review of the topic, followed by a number of shorter chapters that provide illustrative examples as
they are manifest in specific settings and in defined populations. The contributors to this book come from diverse academic and practitioner backgrounds, including anthropology, sociology, social
policy, social work, nursing and funeral directing.
This book is not light reading. It will be of interest to palliative care professionals with an interest in death and how we respond to it,
and it will be a valuable resource for courses covering the areas of death, grief and bereavement.
Roger Woodruff
Director, Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
(August 2003)
Author information
Jenny Hock is Senior Lecturer at Hull University, UK
Jeanne Katz teaches at The Open University in the school of Health and Social Welfare, UK.
Neil Small is Professor of Community and Primary Care at Bradford University, UK.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Katz
Part I
1. Theories of grief: a critical review 19
Small
2. Is grief an illness? Issues of theory in relation to cultural diversity and the grieving process 49
Currer
3. Four siblings' perspectives on parent death: a family focus 61
Moss and Moss
4. 'Naturalizing' death among older adults in residential care 73
Komaromy and Hockey
5. Just an old fashioned love song or a harlequin romance? Some experiences of widowhood 82
Part II
6. Discourse into practice: the production of bereavement care 97
Small, Hockey
7. The skills we need. Bereavement counselling and governmentality in England 125
Arnason
8. 'You have to get inside the person' or making grief private: image and metaphor in the therapeutic re-construction of bereavement 135
Anderson
9. Supporting bereaved children at school 144
Katz
10. The child death helpline 158
Simons
11. A place for my child: the evolution of a candle service 174
Heslop
Part III
12. Changing death rituals 185
Hockey
13. Funeral ritual, past and present 212
Gore
14. Forget me not: memorialisation in cemeteries and crematoria 218
Bradbury
15. The cemetery: the evidence of continuing bonds 226
Francis, Kellaher, Neophytou
16. Hindu death and mourning rituals: the impact of geographical mobility 237
Firth
17. Grieving in public 247
Howarth
18. Post-disaster rituals 256
Eyre
Conclusions 267
Katz
Index 276
