Sociology: Death & Dying

The book opens with an examination of suicidality as a complex issue. Suicides may be prevented by addressing the mode of reporting in the media, b...

We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctor...

On Sunday, October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from thirty-two floors above a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las V...

This little book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about the one certainty in all our ...

Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and fami...

The meaning of our concern for mortal remainsfrom antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his ...

Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will h...

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, ...

Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual cons...

Since Herophilus, the father of anatomy, performed the first public human dissection in the third century B.C.E., audiences have been spellbound...