Download or read book The Social Construction of Death written by Leen Van Brussel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences – use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.