Sociology: Death & Dying

Social Palliation is a pioneering study on living and dying as articulated by first-generation Iranian and Ismaili Muslim communities in Canada. Us...

A Sunday Times Bestseller March 2022 (Ireland)Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte's deat...

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionat...

Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and ...

Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and ...

PROSE Award Finalist for Psychology and Applied Social Work Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings ...

This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monumen...

Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confron...

'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and bo...

Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology grad student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning death from ...