section_path: Subfields/Health, illness, and the body/Death, dying, bereavement
section_name: Death, dying, bereavement
paragraph_text: Death, dying, bereavement
  
  A subfield of the sociology of health and illness that overlaps with cultural sociology is the study of death, dying and bereavement, sometimes referred to broadly as the sociology of death. This topic is exemplified by the work of Douglas Davies and Michael C. Kearl.