Panagiotis Pentaris is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Thanatology in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich, where he is also a member of the Institute for Lifecourse Development, an internationally recognised institute focusing on interdisciplinary research across the lifespan. Panagiotis is a council member for the Association for the Study of Death and Society, and over the last ten years he has researched and published on death, dying, bereavement, culture and religion, social work, social policy and LGBTQIA+ issues.
“My field of work is thanatology (science of death) and I am involved internationally with research, policy and practice in the areas of death, dying and bereavement, while my work informs end of life care policies and training internationally.” Panagiotis explained when we asked him why he decided to write the book. “Editing – and writing parts of – this volume was naturally one of the varied invitations I received since COVID-19 and the myriad challenges vis-à-vis loss and grief.” Death, Grief and Loss in the Context of COVID-19 is a resource of reflections and research about the impact of COVID-19 and associated measures, inclusive of multi-disciplinary and international perspectives.
“This book provides a detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which Covid-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement.” Panagiotis told us “Editing and writing parts of this book has been a rewarding journey, which has given the opportunity to all contributors and I to advance an international dialogue about COVID-19, socio-political inequalities and long-term concerns regarding losses and grief.” He adds “The concept of ‘pandemic grief’, discussed in international events since May 2020 by myself and other international colleagues, some of whom are contributing key tools to this volume, is examined as well. I hope this volume is received well by a wide audience given its international and multi-disciplinary character.”
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Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Capturing the beginning of a long journey of loss, trauma and grief Panagiotis Pentaris
PART 1: Reconsidering Death and Grief in Covid-19
Chapter 1. Familiarity with death Panagiotis Pentaris and Kate Woodthorpe
Chapter 2: Grief in the COVID-19 pandemicKenneth Doka
Chapter 3: Apocalypse now: COVID-19 and the crisis of meaningRobert Neimeyer, Evgenia (Jane) Milman and Sherman Lee
Chapter 4: Physically distant but socially connected: Streaming funerals, memorials and ritual design during COVID-19Stacey Pitsillides and Jayne Wallace
Chapter 5: Social death in 2020: Covid-19, which lives matter and which deaths count?Jana Králová
PART 2: Institutional Care and Covid-19
Chapter 6: End-of-life decision-making in the context of a pandemicNatalie Pattison and Lucy Ryan
Chapter 7: NHS Values, Ritual, Religion, and Covid-19 Death
Douglas Davies
Chapter 8: Non-COVID-19 related dying and death during the pandemicWai Yee Chee, Samuel Wang, Winnie Teo, Melissa Fong, Andy Lee and Woon Chai Yong
Chapter 9: Covid-19 and care home deaths and harms: A case study from the UKAlisoun Milne
Chapter 10: Impact of Covid-19 on mental health and associated lossesManju Shahul-Hameed, John Foster, Gina Finnerty and Panagiotis Pentaris
Chapter 11: Assisted dying and Covid-19Theo Boer and Kevin Yuill
PART 3: Impact of COVID-19 in Context
Chapter 12: Losing touch? Older people and COVID-19Renske Claasje Visser
Chapter 13: Between cultural necrophilia & African American activism: life & loss in the age of COVIDKami Fletcher and Tamara Waraschinski
Chapter 14: The biopolitics and stigma of the HIV and Covid-19 PandemicsJason Schaub
Chapter 15: Suicide in the context of the COVID-19 pandemicMohammed Mamun and Jannatul Mawa Misti
Chapter 16: Death and dying during the COVD-19 pandemic: The Indian contextApurva Kumar Pandya and Khyati Tripathi
