Sociology: Death & Dying

A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of search...

Near death experiences fascinate everyone, from theologians to sociologists and neuroscientists. This groundbreaking book introduces the phenomenon...

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left ...

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Wester...

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Wester...

On November 16, 1984, Sue Chance's son committed suicide. In this vivid personal account of the aftermath of that event, she shares her pain, guilt...

This book investigates the language created and used on social media to express and respond to personal experiences of illness, dying and mourning....

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book ex...

On the Way to Death completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy, death, and God. It addresses itself to the question...

A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of...

This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long ...

Where are the dead? What are they doing? What kind of a process is dying? What relationships exist among the dead themselves, and between the dead...

This book examines research on death, dying and bereavement, and how our approaches, perceptions and expectations shapes what we can know about the...

The Introduction chapter of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It ...

Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage with othe...

Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of "predictable death...

Each year, more than one million people and their loved-ones arrive at a decision to cease attempts at curative medical treatments and shift to hos...

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence, along with his 19...

This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for ...

This book offers the first comprehensive study of Czech funerary practices to be published in English. It provides an in-depth account of the hist...

Drawing on feminist theory, as well as theory surrounding the correlation between poverty and suicide, this study explores the increased rate of su...

What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious...

In the early 1970s bereavement support groups were almost unknown. However, the obvious benefits of the group process for recovery - the mutual sup...

This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. In this third edition previous chapters are throrughly ...

In the early 1970s bereavement support groups were almost unknown. However, the obvious benefits of the group process for recovery - the mutual sup...

This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying. These professionals must perceive the needs of peo...

Shneidman presents basic ideas of the common characteristics of suicide. He offers a fresh definition of the phenomenon, which includes direct impl...

This book offers a critical review of the main psychological theories on adaptation after loss followed by an overview of the results of the empiri...

Treatment of suicidal people takes three forms: prevention - strategies to avert conditions leading to suicide; intervention - treatment and care d...

Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poe...

The intent of Death and Ethnicity emphasizes that death occurs to us as unique individuals living within particular sociocultural settings. Those w...

This distinguished constitutional theorist takes a hard look at current criminal law and the Supreme Court's most recent decisions regarding the le...

This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdiscipli...

This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdiscipli...

Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore...

This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the sin...