Sociology: Death & Dying

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...

The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres...

"The death of a child," writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, "poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that we die and t...

The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how l...

Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the fifty years after 1914....

Few people have the opportunity to change the face of modern medicine. However, Raymond Moody achieved precisely this with the publication in 1975 ...

At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to ...

When the topic of death is a taboo subject to a population, how can life insurance companies create a market for their business? In Marketing Death...

Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the...

The Neolithic of the Near East is a period of human development which saw fundamental changes in the nature of human society. It is traditionally s...

This book is a pioneering anthropological study of suicide in the contemporary Arab world. It discusses the effects of life under the Israeli occup...

Today, an increasing number of people want to organise at least part of a funeral for themselves, without depending on funeral directors.The New Na...

Trying to find some peace in the City That Never Sleeps"" has always been difficult-even for dead New Yorkers. Rapid development, rising property v...

Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roma...

Death Talk is about the healing power of conversation. It gives numerous examples of children and their families being released from the grip of sa...

Give Sorrow Words gives an overview of children’s attitudes toward death and considers the moral and ethical issues raised by treatments for life-t...