Sociology: Death & Dying
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Claire Berman€70.99The 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...
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Sold out Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Lesley A. Sharp€92.99In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic ...
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Songs for Dead Parents
Erik Mueggler€92.99In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and mea...
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Songs for Dead Parents
Erik Mueggler€29.99In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and mea...
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Jeffrey P. Bishop€166.16In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the ...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc€70.99This 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...
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Natural Causes
Barbara Ehrenreich€16.99We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at th...
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Inventing Afterlives
Regina M. JanesCurrent price €38.99Original price €39.99Why is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most modern thinkers ...
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Sold out Understanding Suicide's Allure
Daryl S. Paulson€62.99This 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,...
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Life After Baby Loss
Nicola Gaskin€18.50**Winner of Author of The Year at The Butterfly (Baby Loss) Awards**For all parents and family managing the emotional battlefield of baby loss.When...
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Inventing Afterlives
Regina M. Janes€112.99Why is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most modern thinkers ...
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Sold out 33 Meditations on Death
David Jarrett€16.99AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound'"Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the reali...
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Too Easy to Keep
Steve Herbert€31.99“Some guys don’t break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don’t commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, a...
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Embodying the Music and Death Nexus
Emerald Publishing Limited€86.99Embodied encounters with death affect humans deeply, with the power to crush, transform and strengthen individuals and relationships. Understanding...
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Sold out Pro-Life/Choice Debate
Mark Y. Herring€66.99While the disagreements on abortion date to the beginning of our country, most of its public debate has taken place during the 20th century. Herrin...
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Sold out Last Choice
C.G. Prado€82.99The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal dimi...
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Sold out International Handbook of Funeral Customs
Kodo Matsunami€66.99This handbook explores the cultural and religious customs concerning death, burial, and mourning in countries throughout the world and covers all t...
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Sold out Planning and Managing Death Issues in the Schools
Robert L. Deaton€62.99By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral reactions substantially. Helping s...
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Sold out Handbook of Black American Health
Ivor Lensworth Livingston€72.99It is estimated that there are 60,000 excess Black American deaths annually compared with White Americans. Not only do Black babies die earlier tha...
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Kevin E. Early€67.99Suicide 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 ...
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Sold out Mortality Patterns and Trends in the United States
Paul E. Zopf€82.99Zopf provides a comprehensive account of the biological components of mortality, its various forms and causes, and its many differentials. The stud...
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Sold out Suicide Among the Elderly in Long-Term Care Facilities
Aaron P. Lipman€82.99This is the first large-scale study of suicide in a population of institutionalized older adults. From their findings, the authors identify the mos...
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Sold out Mortality of Hispanic Populations
Ira Rosenwaike€82.99Hispanics in the United States, numbering 22.4 million at the 1990 census, are the nation's second largest and fastest growing minority population....
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Sold out Death and Afterlife
Hiroshi Obayashi€72.99Major religious traditions of the world contain perspectives of perennial importance on the topic of death and afterlife. Such concepts and beliefs...
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Samuel Southard€72.99A burgeoning body of literature on death and dying is organized into a comprehensive, carefully outlined, annotated list in this volume, which cite...
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Facing Down the Furies
Edith Hall€23.99An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating...
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Every Family Has A Story
Julia Samuel€17.50THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Essential, clever and kind' Alain de Botton'I am a huge admirer of Julia's work' Elizabeth Day____________________In he...
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Beth A. Bassein€62.99Bassein examines the pervasive linkage between women's sexuality and death in Western thought and literature and concludes that there is no reasona...
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc€67.99This 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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Sacred Remains
Gary Laderman€27.50When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contra...
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Sold out Fatal Freedom
Thomas Szasz€67.99Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. The author, a renowned psychiatrist, believes that we...
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Sold out Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
Kathleen O'Shea€82.99Using 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...
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C.G. Prado€43.99The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal dimi...
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Sold out Psychology of Hope
Kalman Kaplan€82.99This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western c...
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Sold out Politics of Children's Survival
George Kent€82.99The central concern of this pioneering study is the high rate of child mortality worldwide and the prospects for its reduction. Taking as his major...
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