Books by Lindsay Prior

A study of the way in which death is socially organized in the city of Belfast. It analyzes the responses to 415 deaths registered here in 1981, tracing the social, medical, legal, religious and political responses made to those deaths from the time death was pronounced to the time of disposal.

Examines the organization of medical and social services for people with serious psychiatric disorders. This text focuses on the transition from hospital-centred to community-centred services and explores the rationales and consequences of this and other transformations in mental health provision.

A comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research.