Le travail de la mort

In this article, the author examines attitudes and practices concerning death and the dying, in the light of an analysis of the function of hospitals as an institution and of medical practice viewed as a process of producing death. She tries to show how death even though relegated to the hospital, remains nonetheless socialized. She also tries to pinpoint the first signs of a rebirth of the collective sensitivity to the problems of death and dying in contemporary society.Herzlich Claudine. Le travail de la mort. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 31ᵉ année, N. 1, 1976. pp. 197-217