Sociology: Death & Dying

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...

With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic...

Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately,...

Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately,...

Ali ibn Abi Talib said: ‘The life of this world is quickly departing and the life of the hereafter is quickly approaching and each one of them has ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘Joyful, hilarious, effervescent, brilliant and deeply wise’ Glennon Doyle, on Alua ArthurThinking deeply about your d...

War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars—or more precisely the memories of war—of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of...

Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) Prix Relè...

Discover how the bonds of life and love transcend death• Explains the phenomenon of crisis apparitions: visions of loved ones that are experienced ...

An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships,...

Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case stu...

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commo...

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative know...

What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidiscipli...

"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 ...

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immorta...

Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what b...

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives ...

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the ...

Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types...

Candidly written, ""On Death Without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying"", attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurren...

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives ...