Sociology: Death & Dying

Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Sentenced to COVID speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside priso...

Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Sentenced to COVID speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside priso...

This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. I...

The remarkable stories of beloved pets from the famous and unusual to the everyday memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by ...

Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues...

Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues...

Graveyards, burial sites and cemeteries are as old as human civilization, resting places and memorial sites for loved ones, the great and sometimes...

'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down'Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win go...

This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. I...

States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the states reach into the real...

States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the states reach into the real...

When we are thrust into the role of caregiver for a loved one who is in the process of dying, its easy to get overwhelmed. Yet its a situation mill...

A major emerging demographic issue of the twenty-first century is the ageing of populations as an inevitable consequence of the demographic transit...

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects h...

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accide...

The idea of photographing the dead is as old as photography itself. For the most part, early death photographs were commissioned or taken by relati...

In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Jean M. Langford repeatedly met with spirits: the wandering souls of the seriously ill, dang...

Travis Pickell explores the paradoxes of choice in modern dying and the ways Christian theology can aid in navigating the relationship between mora...

An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person CARIAD LLOYD 'Brilliantly, brilliantly written Packed with clarity, curiosit...

On August 9, 1965, 53 men died in the impoverished hills of rural Arkansas. Their final breaths came in a government facility deep underground whil...

Artist and scholar Marcia Brennan serves as Artist in Residence at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and the experience of seeing, close...

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elu...