Sociology: Death & Dying

The dispassionate intellectual examination of the concepts of death & dying contrasts dramatically with the emotive grieving process experience...

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceShortlis...

This book addresses the dying process and the nature of death itself with the intention that it might help us to accept and embrace both these thin...

The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying. Much of today''s literature on end-of-life issues overlooks...

Angela is obsessed with death. This powerful fixation has driven her to pursue a ruthless career as the CEO of one of the worlds largest biotech an...

A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives deathand an argument for how it can make us happy. He who would teach men to die would ...

The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergi...

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribu...

Sharp, angry, punchily philosophical and often funny. It basically invents a new type of lifestyle aspiration: deathstyle. The Times Callenders jo...

Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door....

Despite the fact that we all die, humans do not share the same view of death. In Death: A Reader, Mary Ann G. Cutter explores prominent themes that...