Sociology: Death & Dying

The trauma of losing a sibling when we are in our adult years is one of the most unrecognized and undertreated areas of psychology. There is no oth...

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic ...

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the ...

This book reviews the spectrum of death, from when the living person turns to corpse until the person lives in the memory of mourners, and its impa...

This book explains why suicide can be alluring to a person aiming to stop his or her traumatic pain—whether its source is bullying, sexual assault,...

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound'"Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the reali...

While the disagreements on abortion date to the beginning of our country, most of its public debate has taken place during the 20th century. Herrin...

The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal dimi...

This handbook explores the cultural and religious customs concerning death, burial, and mourning in countries throughout the world and covers all t...

By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral reactions substantially. Helping s...

It is estimated that there are 60,000 excess Black American deaths annually compared with White Americans. Not only do Black babies die earlier tha...

Suicide among African Americans occurs at about half the rate with which it occurs among white Americans. Why is the black rate of suicide so much ...

Zopf provides a comprehensive account of the biological components of mortality, its various forms and causes, and its many differentials. The stud...

This is the first large-scale study of suicide in a population of institutionalized older adults. From their findings, the authors identify the mos...

Hispanics in the United States, numbering 22.4 million at the 1990 census, are the nation's second largest and fastest growing minority population....

Major religious traditions of the world contain perspectives of perennial importance on the topic of death and afterlife. Such concepts and beliefs...

A burgeoning body of literature on death and dying is organized into a comprehensive, carefully outlined, annotated list in this volume, which cite...

Bassein examines the pervasive linkage between women's sexuality and death in Western thought and literature and concludes that there is no reasona...

This book presents the problem of attempted suicide as a meaningful and momentous event in the person's life with special consideration of its effe...

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Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. The author, a renowned psychiatrist, believes that we...

Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalt...

The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal dimi...

This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western c...

The central concern of this pioneering study is the high rate of child mortality worldwide and the prospects for its reduction. Taking as his major...