Mortality

Mortality

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Aims and Scope:

The stimulus for Mortality grew out of an awareness of the 
wide range and depth of new research being undertaken 
around human mortality. Whilst some disciplines have been 
long concerned with questions of life and death, this 
growth of interest can be observed in many areas: in an 
expanding academic literature on dying, death and 
bereavement  in popular media commentaries  in the variety 
of reform groups created to improve the social rituals 
surrounding mortality  in the hospice movement and the 
increasing concern with palliative care  and in the growth 
of counselling and organisations dedicated to addressing 
the needs of bereaved people.

>From the outset the intention of the Editors has been to 
provide an interdisciplinary journal that has relevance 
both for academics and and other professionals engaged in 
this field of work. Death studies is not a branch of any 
discipline but is an interdisciplinary medium  it is 
ubiquitous and universal. Mortality is pertinent to 
academics in the fields of anthropology, art, classics, 
history, literature, medicine, music, socio-legal studies, 
social policy, sociology, philosophy, psychology and 
religious studies. It is also particularly relevant to 
those professionally or voluntarily engaged in the health 
and caring professions, in bereavement counselling, the 
funeral industries, and in central and local government. 

Since it's launch in March 1996, Mortality has been 
welcomed by this wide range of international scholars and 
professional groups. It's interdisciplinary approach has 
been particularly appreciated and contributions have come 
from both new and established scholars in this field. In a 
recent review for the journal Folklore, Valerie Clark 
singled out for praise 'the flexibility in terms of 
content' and remarked on the 'innovative' sections of the 
journal: 'Classics Revisited' and 'exhibition reviews'.

Mortality specifically aims to:

 Publish new material, the quality of which is guaranteed 
by peer-review 
. Encourage debate and offer critiques of existing and 
classical work 
. Promote the development of theory and methodology 
. Develop substantive issues and empirical research 
. Illuminate specific subject areas and issues by providing 
an interdisciplinary context. 
. Stimulate the growing awareness of the relevance of human 
mortality in personal and social life, in economic and 
institutional activity, and in systems of belief, ethics 
and values. 

The journal Editors pursue an active, international policy 
that invites articles addressing all historical periods and 
all subject areas.

Editor: Professor David Field, Department of Epidemiology 
and Public Health, University of Leicester, UK
Revd Dr Peter C. Jupp, Department of Sociology, University 
of Bristol, UK 

Publication Details: 
Volume 7, 2002, 3 issues per year 
ISSN 1357-6275

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