Mortality

EDITORS

Mortality aims to advance scholarship about human mortality by the publication and stimulation of research and debate. It is an academic and interdisciplinary journal which addresses issues relating to death, dying, disposal and bereavement taking account of a diversity of cultural backgrounds.

Over the last ten years there has been a shift in public awareness of issues around death and dying. This has been complementary to a re-awakening of academic interest across a wide range of disciplines and in an increasing number of countries. Scholars in, for example, anthropology, archaeology, art, biology, environment, gender, history, law, literature, medicine, palliative medicine, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology and social policy are rediscovering and re-presenting the relevance to their studies of human mortality.

Mortality promotes the study of death as a medium for the publication of research and the stimulation of debate within and across disciplinary boundaries. It is relevant to those involved in the practical preparation for, and consequences of, death in health care and counselling, in religions, in the funeral directing industries and the services which provide burial, cremation and memorialisation facilities.

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Mortality is indexed in AIDS Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), British Humanities Index (BHI), CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, Contenta Religionum, Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, Progress in Palliative Care, Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts and Studies on Women Abstracts.

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