Sociology: Death & Dying

Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not ...

While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit....

In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had call...

Singular Paths, based extensively on interviews, breaks fresh ground by describing specifically the situations, experiences, and feelings of the of...

Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, The Last Word explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse socia...

Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of deat...

Erik Olin Wright, one of the most important sociologists of his time, takes us along on his intimate and brave journey toward death, and asks the b...

While grief is suffered in all cultures, it is expressed differently all over the world in accordance with local customs and beliefs. Music has bee...

Mass violence and terrorism are a salient phenomenon in the late modern society, showing no sign of decline. Proactive results from the long, ongoi...

Death is an unanswerable question for humanity, the question that always remains unanswered because it lies beyond human experience. Music represen...

St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London. It was the mother church of the diocese, a principal landowner in the...

The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive persp...

This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World"" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rit...

In the early 1960s this classic work of investigative journalism was a number one bestseller. The savage and hilarious analysis of America's funera...

Many parents who have experienced the death of a child struggle with painful and at times overwhelming marital problems. Grieving can create great ...

'There is no aspect of Victorian death that does not make it into Judith Flanders’s latest investigation into 19th-century life' - The Sunday Times...

Children experience death differently from adults and therefore need different kinds of help when they are bereaved. Understanding Children's Exper...

This book would appeal to professionals and practitioners in the field of bereavement care, particularly funeral practices. In the presence of much...

With twenty educators contributing ideas piloted with children of different abilities and backgrounds in their care, 'Good Grief'has been designed ...

Many parents who have experienced the death of a child struggle with painful and at times overwhelming marital problems. Grieving can create great ...

Before Their Time is the first work to present adult children survivors' (defined as eighteen or above at the time of the parent's death) accounts...

The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In th...

With twenty educators contributing ideas piloted with children of different abilities and backgrounds in their care, Good Grief has been designed t...

Since the early 1960s there has been an enormous increase in the numbers of cases of suicide, self-mutilation and depression, adolescents and the e...

This book is a guide to making and carrying out the psychological decision to kill oneself or, if one so decide, to continue living. It focuses on ...

A ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five

A ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five

When a family member or close friend dies, it can be difficult to know how best to help the children and teenagers involved. Someone Very Important...

Despite the rise of clinical interest in posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic stress in children, there has been little attention paid to th...

Coping With Loss describes the many ways in which people cope with the death of someone they love. Most earlier books on bereavement have fallen i...

Despite the rise of clinical interest in posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic stress in children, there has been little attention paid to th...

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through act...

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through act...

This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. In recent years, the social...

In the week following the death of Princess Diana, the media presented images of the entire British nation united in tearful hysterical grief to mo...

This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. In recent years, the social...

The discussion of death is at last being brought out into the open, while the care of the dying is seen to involve more than the traditional servic...

During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevaili...

Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicid...

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essa...

Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the...

All of us who work in the field of death and dying are, beyond our projects and our practices, working on our awareness of our own mortality. This ...

Intended for psychologists, clergy, and therapists and school guidance counselors specializing in treating dysfunctional families, grief counseling...

Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicid...

"Meeting the Needs of Our Clients Creatively: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving" is an important new work which integrates traditional un...

Mass violence and terrorism are a salient phenomenon in the late modern society, showing no sign of decline. Proactive results from the long, ongoi...

Sages of various traditions and ages have reiterated that we must incorporate the inevitability of death into the fabric of life to experience life...