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Interview with Katharine Strozier
Katharine Strozier
Jan 01, 0001
In her December 6, 1980 interview with Rebecca Myers, Katharine Strozier shares the details of her life at Winthrop from the time she was in Training School until the time she graduated. Included are the memories of her life...
Published by: Winthrop University
Family and funerals
Katharine Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 0001
This article explores a number of relational features of a contemporary funeral: content, participation, and commercial choice. In so doing, it uses Finch and Mason’s concept of reflexive relationalism to show that the...
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Death, Dying and Devolution
Katharine Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 0001
This brief reviews policy areas associated with death, dying and bereavement within the context of devolution. It focuses on the national and regional delegation of power, resources and authority across the UK and the...
Family and funerals
Katharine Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 0001
This article explores a number of relational features of a contemporary funeral: content, participation, and commercial choice. In so doing, it uses Finch and Mason’s concept of reflexive relationalism to show that the...
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Using bereavement theory to understand memorialising behaviour
Katharine Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 0001
Two major theoretical approaches to bereavement – loosely categorised as psychological models of adaptation and the more socially orientated idea of continuing bonds – are often utilised to make sense of the experience of grief....
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Death, Dying and Devolution
Katharine Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 0001
This brief reviews policy areas associated with death, dying and bereavement within the context of devolution. It focuses on the national and regional delegation of power, resources and authority across the UK and the...
Using bereavement theory to understand memorialising behaviour
Katharine Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 0001
Two major theoretical approaches to bereavement – loosely categorised as psychological models of adaptation and the more socially orientated idea of continuing bonds – are often utilised to make sense of the experience of grief....
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Asthma
Aaron S et al. Re-evaluation of diagnosis in adults with physician-diagnosed asthma. JAMA (1) Reviewed by Akhilesh Jha Asthma diagnosis is based on classical symptoms together with variable airflow limitation (2). Accuracy...
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Asthma
Aaron S et al. Re-evaluation of diagnosis in adults with physician-diagnosed asthma. JAMA (1) Reviewed by Akhilesh Jha Asthma diagnosis is based on classical symptoms together with variable airflow limitation (2). Accuracy...
What cost the price of a good send off? The challenges for British state funeral policy
The period immediately after death has often been overlooked in British social policy, particularly in relation to funerals. The challenges presented by projected increases in the death rate owing to the ageing UK population...
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The aftermath of death in the continuing lives of the living
While there is a significant interdisciplinary and international literature available on death, dying and bereavement, literature addressing responses to death is dominated by assumptions about individuality, framing...
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Investigating mortuary services in hospital settings

The practice and professional identity of those who within hospital mortuaries, anatomical pathology technologists (APTs), is largely invisible to the extent that the work and setting in which they work is absent in...

Published by: Unkown Publisher
Supporting bereaved students at university

Bereaved university students in the UK are an overlooked population in research, policy, and practice. In this article, we examine the implications of this neglect via (1) international literature on bereavement in young...

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IPR Policy Brief - Funeral poverty in the UK
Kate Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 2014
Researchers at the University of Bath have examined state support available for those who cannot afford a funeral at the point of need.

They evaluated the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Social Fund Funeral...
Published by: University of Bath
Reflecting on death
Kate Woodthorpe
Feb 01, 2009
This paper considers some of the issues encountered when researching a particular space in which death is engaged: a cemetery landscape. Building on literature available on research and reflexivity, the paper addresses some of...
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IPR Policy Brief - Funeral poverty in the UK
Kate Woodthorpe
Jan 01, 2014
Researchers at the University of Bath have examined state support available for those who cannot afford a funeral at the point of need.

They evaluated the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Social Fund Funeral...
Published by: University of Bath
Reflecting on death
Kate Woodthorpe
Feb 01, 2009
This paper considers some of the issues encountered when researching a particular space in which death is engaged: a cemetery landscape. Building on literature available on research and reflexivity, the paper addresses some of...
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Putting ‘the grave’ into social policy
There is a long tradition in the assessment of UK social policy of examining benefit entitlement and access, yet little attention has been paid towards benefits associated with bereavement and, in particular, what happens for...
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Researching death
K Woodthorpe
Mar 01, 2011
As an academic subject of study, death has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. Yet unlike other topics in the social sciences, death occupies a rather unique status as a research topic. A universal concern that...
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Researching death
K Woodthorpe
Mar 01, 2011
As an academic subject of study, death has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. Yet unlike other topics in the social sciences, death occupies a rather unique status as a research topic. A universal concern that...
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A golden silence? Acts of remembrance and commemoration at UK football games
L Foster, Kate Woodthorpe
Feb 01, 2012
This article reviews the use of minute’s silences and applause at football (soccer) games in the United Kingdom, considering why acts of remembrance take place and for whom. Examining the variation in commemoration, the article...
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A golden silence? Acts of remembrance and commemoration at UK football games
L Foster, Kate Woodthorpe
Feb 01, 2012
This article reviews the use of minute’s silences and applause at football (soccer) games in the United Kingdom, considering why acts of remembrance take place and for whom. Examining the variation in commemoration, the article...
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Supporting bereaved students at university

Bereaved university students in the UK are an overlooked population in research, policy, and practice. In this article, we examine the implications of this neglect via (1) international literature on bereavement in young...

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