This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. It draws on data from an ESRC award-winning UK based study on the development of minimally invasive post-mortem to examine a range of sociologically pertinent issues relating to: ‘trauma’ ‘emotions’, ‘decisions’, ‘care’ ‘technology’ ‘memory’ and the role of ‘social and biological relationships’. By shedding light on this taboo aspect of healthcare, the book provides a highly original contribution to sociology, offering a comprehensive analysis of some of the most pressing concerns in the field to date.
Table of Content
Introduction
1 Trauma
2 Decisions
3 Technology
4 Emotions
5 Care
6 Memory
7 Relationships
Conclusion: Life after death
References
About the author
Kate Reed is a Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Sheffield Julie Ellis is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Health and Illness at the University of Huddersfield Elspeth Whitby is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield
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