Sociology: Death & Dying

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...

The editors undertook this project to promote the International Conference on Death, Grief, and Bereavement in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. Throughou...

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...

This text is not just another reader on death, but rather a carefully developed book, created specifically for those persons whose major interests ...

Death is a constant in every society, but each of the world's cultures views the end of life differently. This book examines beliefs about dying, b...

Rarely heard about in our society are caregivers' thoughts and feelings about life, death, and dying and how they act on those feelings. For the Li...

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

Ive worked as an intensive care doctor for over twenty years, caring for patients who are in the thick fog between life and death. Ive met hundreds...

About 30 percent of hospice patients report a visitation by someone who is not there, a phenomenon known in end-of-life care as a deathbed vision. ...

The neurological criteria for the determination of death remain controversial within secular and Catholic circles, even though they are widely acce...

BOOK OF THE YEAR IN SPECTATOR AND TIMES'Fascinating.... Deeply disturbing... Brilliant' Sunday Times'Powerful and moving.' Louis TherouxMeet Adam. ...

If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life? Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those wh...

Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized by society. Stigma is the fundamental factor that darkens the lives of the bereaved, overshadowing ...

Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted...

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that death anxiety is responsible fo...

Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on e...