Sociology: Death & Dying

This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. In recent years, the social...

The discussion of death is at last being brought out into the open, while the care of the dying is seen to involve more than the traditional servic...

During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevaili...

Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicid...

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essa...

Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the...

All of us who work in the field of death and dying are, beyond our projects and our practices, working on our awareness of our own mortality. This ...

Intended for psychologists, clergy, and therapists and school guidance counselors specializing in treating dysfunctional families, grief counseling...

Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicid...

"Meeting the Needs of Our Clients Creatively: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving" is an important new work which integrates traditional un...

Mass violence and terrorism are a salient phenomenon in the late modern society, showing no sign of decline. Proactive results from the long, ongoi...

Sages of various traditions and ages have reiterated that we must incorporate the inevitability of death into the fabric of life to experience life...

The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "I know what grief feels like; I don't know wha...

Losses may provide a turning point where an individual faces personal and social choices. Still, one may derive significance through the experience...

The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella m...

The goal of this book is to fully explore what the author refers to as 'the near epidemic levels of suicide and homicide-suicide' among law enforce...

In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Jean M. Langford repeatedly met with spirits: the wandering souls of the seriously ill, dang...

What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace...

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essa...

Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the...

“[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general.”—Social Anthropo...

The study of funeral monuments is a growing field, but monuments erected to commemorate children have so far received little attention. Whilst the ...

This book is a research-based text and emphasizes cultural factors that often significantly affect the adolescent coping with death. It provides co...

In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the wo...

In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the wo...

From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the c...

Life and death are never far apart in Egyptian culture and society, and Bridget McDermott's book looks beyond funerary rites and mummification to e...

In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500–1800, 11 authors combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intelle...

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men ...

This book examines what we know about the phenomenon of suicide by cop and places this behavior in a broader context. For example, some murder vict...

Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places througho...

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men ...

"He was my best friend." "I feel like I've lost that one person I could always count on." Siblings know each other in ways friends and other blood ...

The main questions raised in this book are: How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of ...

The main questions raised in this book are: How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of ...

In this thought-provoking memoir, Nancy Gerber maps the wrenching terrain of caring for an elderly parent. In the fall of 1995, at the age of 73, t...