Representations of Childhood Death

by Gillian Avery

Recent events such as the massacres in Dunblane and Arkansas, the deaths of children in terrorist attacks, civil wars and famines, children born with AIDS, and the many abductions and murders of children - including some by children - have placed childhood death firmly in the public consciousness. But how do we understand what it means for a child to die? This book examines the way the deaths of children have been dealt with at different times and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312224087
• ISBN13: 9780312224080
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"