Sociology: Death & Dying

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 illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a div...

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrializationspecifically, the decline of the textile industry in ...

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concer...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby i...

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concer...

Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is...

A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those conside...

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

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying.Emo...

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

Making friends with death is the ultimate liberationContemplating death is scary. Most of us prefer not to dwell on the fact that our time here is ...

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 rela...

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

Passing is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to pass away or pass on. This open-ended saying has at its heart a no...

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrializationspecifically, the decline of the textile industry in ...

The U.S. hospital embodies societys hope for itselfa technological bastion standing between us and death. What does the gold standard of rescue, as...

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...