Theories of Death and Dying

Abstract: Death is a state of the total disappearance of life. Dying is a process of decay of the vital system, which ends with clinical death. In current perspectives there are several approaches to research on death and dying; these are the clinical, the humanistic, the philosophical, the psychological, the anthropological, and the sociological perspective

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Preprint ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Turner, Bryan S. (Hg.), Kivisto, Peter (Hg.), Outhwaite, William (Hg.), Kyung-Sup, Chang (Hg.), Epstein, Cynthia F. (Hg.), Ryan, J. Michael (Hg.): The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. 2017. ISBN 978-1-118-43087-3

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2017
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Hoboken
• (who): Wiley-Blackwell
• (when): 2017
• Creator: Klimczuk, Andrzej ; Fabiś, Artur
• Contributor: Turner, Bryan S. ; Kivisto, Peter ; Outhwaite, William ; Kyung-Sup, Chang ; Epstein, Cynthia F. ; Ryan, J. Michael

Further information

• DOI: 10.1002/9781118430873.est0084
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-71563-3
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:45 PM CET