The social construction of death

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September 2020

The article The accounting of deaths and the social organization of death in Brazil aims to understand the development of the way deaths are accounted for in Brazil and its influence on how we perceive death.

Figure 1 : Death certificate from the nineteenth century (Coleção Brasiliana Itaú)

Researchers Oscar Palma Lima and Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri of  the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais concentrated on the social construction of death and the role of bureaucracy as an element of cohesion.

They analyze the rationality of the registration systems, considering their role in population control, investigate how successive governments have developed these monitoring mechanisms and debate the categories of the death certificate and how this document establishes preliminary elements of a social organization of death.

See the full article:

 Lima, Oscar Palma and Carrieri, Alexandre de Pádua. The accounting of deaths and the social organization of death in Brazil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2020, vol.27, no.2

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