Sociology: Death & Dying

Dramatic advances in medical technology make it possible to keep an individual alive well after life would otherwise be untenable. These medical ad...

From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death...

Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel look...

In this book, Margaret King shows what the death of an eight-year-old boy named Valerio Marcello, in 1490, can tell us about his time. This child, ...

In this book, Margaret King shows what the death of an eight-year-old boy named Valerio Marcello, in 1460, can tell us about his time. This child, ...

Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of ...

Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to...

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...

Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to...

In the open access book, The Digital Logic of Death, Steven Pustay skillfully makes visible the immensely important but often overlooked role that ...

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Mi...

From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton’s ...

What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland’s seminal book ...