Sociology: Death & Dying

Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the...

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe...

'Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turni...

This innovative book explores a range of well-established risk factors for clinical depression and links them to targeted, evidence-based treatment...

In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with th...

Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture...

'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...

How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to what is. Human life is an open expanse of what was and what will be, wha...

A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them. This book discusses memorials - ...

The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, foc...

In this empirical yet deeply humanistic work, Golan Shahar investigates the dynamic relationship between personality and social factors in complex ...

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. ...

'you start every new day with an inventory: a moth, a cape, a parachute, a coffin, a gun, the wall you built to mount the gun.' On the Subject of ...

This book offers a detailed and sensitive account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about pos...

Every living thing must die, but only human beings know it. This knowledge can bring to the living, anxiety and despair or new richness and meaning...

This interdisciplinary collection presents valuable discourse and reflection on the nature of a good death. Bringing together a leading judge and ...

This collection of articles is an outgrowth of the Death, Dying, Bereavement and Widowhood Interest Group of the Gerontological Society of America ...