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Medical anthropology

the loss of social identity, connections and agency that can come before or after biological death.

In medical anthropology, social death refers to the loss of social identity, connections and agency that can come before or after biological death. This meaning comes from Králová (2015) in Contemporary Social Science.[1]

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References

Králová, J. (2015). What is social death? Contemporary Social Science, 10(3), 235-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2015.1114407

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