Social death in end-of-life care policy

Borgstrom, Erica (2015). Social death in end-of-life care policy. Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, 10(3) pp. 272–283.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2015.1109799

Abstract

Social death denotes a loss of personhood. The concept of social death is engaged with in English end-of-life care policy that sees social death before physical death as a problem. Policy-makers posit that dying persons are likely to be subject to a social death prior to their physical death unless they play an active and aware role in planning their death, facilitated through communication and access to services. Such a view foregrounds a vision of agency and does not address Sudnow's critique of how care of the dying focuses on the body.

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• Item ORO ID
• 46826
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 2158-205X
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Not Set	Not Set	NIHR (National Institute of Health Research)

• Keywords
• social death; dying; end-of-life care; policy; England
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care > Health and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
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• © 2015 Academy of Social Sciences
• Depositing User
• Erica Borgstrom