Dying Professions: Exploring Emotion Management among Doctors and Funeral Directors

Dying Professions: Exploring Emotion Management among Doctors and Funeral Directors

There are few more emotive experiences in life than death. Drawing on Arlie Hochschild’s concept of emotional labour, this article compares the emotional responsibilities of two groups of death professionals: doctors and funeral directors. It addresses the lack of comparative studies in the otherwis...

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Main Author: Molly Ryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dalhousie University Libraries 2019-03-01
Series:The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
Subjects:
emotional labour
death attitudes
emotion management
surface acting
deep acting
Online Access:https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/8884

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https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/8884

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