Sociology: Death & Dying

The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on exte...

A child's suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an al...

Human beings, the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is th...

This book makes a strong case that Turkey's regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. Building on the insights of...

A comprehensive historical survey of the work of undertakers in the first half of the twentieth century, essential reading for anyone interested in...

From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or homegoing ceremonies with dig...

An old man learns how to die from a poet facing death For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both kn...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book...

'A beautiful and moving reminder to appreciate life' Roxie Nafousi, author of Manifest'This book may on first glance appear to be about death and r...

This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers. From slugger ...

**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021****A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR**'In his absorbing book...

A groundbreaking collection that explores humananimal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essa...

A groundbreaking collection that explores humananimal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essa...

The inspiring, life-affirming memoir from Nicola Nuttall about her incredible daughter Laura When Nicola Nuttall...

A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins ref...