Sociology: Death & Dying

Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian ...

This volume comprehensively explores the life trajectories of nine child/adolescent Holocaust concentration camp survivors as recollected when the ...

This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discus...

Home is where the heart is. But home is also the most common site for murder. The grimly fascinating new book from the UK's leading criminologist D...

Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of ...

Every gravestone in every graveyard has the potential to frame a story far more complex than the dates found upon its surface. It's common for spou...

NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Full of sense, heart and hope . . . the friend you need when youre grieving PHILIPPA PER...

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the Tokugawa shogunate enacted and enforced myriad laws and ordinances to control nearly ...

By the New York Timess legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep w...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet ...

This insightful study examines the deeply personal and heart-wrenching tensions among financial considerations, emotional attachments, and moral ar...

A dazzling follow-up to Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cell...

End-of-life documentaries have proliferated in the 21st century as various organisations, institutions, journalists, independent filmmakers, and me...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling ...