Sociology: Death & Dying

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...