Boxing up death: The use of symbolic-material devices to address gestational and perinatal mourning in hospitals and families in Catalonia (Spain).
One of the strategies used by Spanish hospitals to address gestational and perinatal mourning is the "memory box." This box contains various elements that refer to the child who has died and seeks to help parents to move through the mourning process. This secular strategy has its historical roots in...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 1325 - 1335 |
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2025
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