Pensando a morte: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

This work is carried out as a bibliographical survey about the anthropological understanding of the historical and cultural construction of death in society, and how social groups and health professionals understand its meaning. Thus, the texts read and indicated here point to: a cultural system of death that gives meaning to death and dying; in western societies the meaning of death is thus; that it is possible to identify settings of death, such as traditional, modern and contemporary; to each configuration, social agents are inserted in the experience of dying and death; changes in spatiality and place of death. Thus the work aims to make the subject of death socially more visible, so as to be structured in the theoretical sense and lived "naturally" as an event that is part of the life cycle. The meaning of death was seen as changeable from time to time in Western society and it is possible to identify its configurations, in each configuration social agents are inserted in the experience of dying and death; changes in spatiality and social place of death.