Sociology: Death & Dying

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that death anxiety is responsible fo...

Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on e...

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photo...

Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edi...

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relat...

Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-gen...

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives ...

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connect...

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers--once regarded as simple fighting tools--became the far less expendabl...

Loss and consequent grief permeates nearly every life changing event, from death to health concerns to dislocation to relationship breakdown to bet...

Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to sh...

Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data ...

Whilst death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how i...