Sociology: Death & Dying

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...