Sociology: Death & Dying

This book offers a theological foundation for engaging with the realities of suffering and dying. Designed particularly for practical theology stud...

The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they pro...

Discover How To Lower The Cost Of Any Funeral Guaranteed Thinking about a funeral and discussing it now is a current act of compassion, which will ...

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19...

This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement. Through three parts: Recon...

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ‘being-towards-death’ and proposes a new und...

New technologies and scientific imagination rearrange the boundary that we identify as the beginning and end of life. New techno-social constella...

Marilyn Monroe died at 36. Her death certificate lists "Acute Barbiturate Poisoning. Ingestion of Overdose" as the cause. Just below that line, ...

This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emp...

Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two mill...

Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness,...

Recent research in the area of suicidology has provided significant new insights in the epidemiological,psychopathological,and biological character...

A source of comfort and expert guidance Like a knowing and sympathetic companion, this unique journal isdesigned to help you work through the pain...

Using the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area...

In this innovative and compelling book Nigel Saul approaches the world of the medieval gentry through the monuments they left behind them. The Cobh...

Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. Self-murder was regarded as a heinous crime in Tudor and Stuar...

The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s. Courses on some aspect of death and dying can now be found at most institutions of...

A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out throu...

This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consisten...

A meditation on the social political and philosophical questions of ageing, from the internationally acclaimed author of Returning to ReimsA few ye...

An essential grief guide and recovery workbook for those who have said, "I thought I'd feel better by now."Grief does not follow a timeline or a se...