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Constructions of death and loss: Evolution of a research program

Neimeyer, R. A.

Keywords:
Death attitudes, suicide, grief and bereavement, constructivism

Abstract:
As historians of science have noted, scientific careers are characterized by "networks of enterprise", multiple, sustained, and mutually reinforcing programs of research that yield not only answers but also further questions across a period of many years. This article traces one such long and multifaceted network of projects, one concerned with death attitudes, suicide intervention, and grief and loss, which has benefited from periodic infusions of constructivist concepts and methods since its inception.