The Czech intimate presence of perinatal loss in the Post-Socialist absence of institutionalised humanity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00107329" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00107329 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539518303807" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539518303807</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.02.006" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.wsif.2019.02.006</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Czech intimate presence of perinatal loss in the Post-Socialist absence of institutionalised humanity
Original language description
Significant changes towards an intimate death take place in the Czech Republic regarding perinatal loss. However, these practices are often initiated by individual actors or civic initiatives. This “intimate presence” of perinatal loss including last rites stands in sharp contrast to absence of structural, institutional changes brought about by politicians or professional organizations towards better hospital or social management of death, bereavement and body disposal. Tensions of expert knowledge and power of biomedical authoritative knowledge form the setting for opposition or negligence coming from the hospital management, birth registers or funeral homes. The article draws on a qualitative sociological inquiry into practices of perinatal loss in the Czech Republic. The fieldwork data entail in-depth interviews with key actors and document analysis inspired by feminist research approach to reproductive loss. The aim is to show and help understand the frictions between emerging more intimate practices of grief, bereavement and last rites related to perinatal loss in the context of Post-Socialist and late-modern paternalised healthcare, medicalisation of life-events and concealment of death. The complexity of Post-Socialist absent or faded away institutionalised humanity regarding death and emerging practices challenging the status quo in perinatal loss treatment open up fruitful field for analytical inquiry.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-02773S" target="_blank" >GA17-02773S: Perinatal Loss - A Case Study</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Women's Studies International Forum
ISSN
0277-5395
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
74
Issue of the periodical within the volume
May–June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
94-103
UT code for WoS article
000472698700013
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85063251622