Sociology: Death & Dying

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? looks at several of the most contentious issues in many societies. The book asks, whose rights are protected? How...

The Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus as Savior, preparedness for the ...

Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dy...

In October 1994, fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Québec were murdered or committed suicide. This incident a...

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe...

Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Children and Death, held in October/November 1989 in Athens. It was attended by over 500 p...

What happens to us when we die? According to Christian faith, we will rise again bodily from the dead. This claim raises a series of philosophical...

This anthology offers a unique collection of personal accounts of death, dying and bereavement. It examines representations of death, dying and ber...

Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment. Beginning with an exami...

This anthology offers a unique collection of personal accounts of death, dying and bereavement. It examines representations of death, dying and ber...

From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a ...

Suicide is an ageless concern that has been with us as long as man has existed. Forbidden by all religions, suicide has nonetheless become such a p...

This book draws together a range of both classic and newly commissioned pieces on the multidisciplinary study of death and dying. Organized into f...

Suicide is an ageless concern that has been with us as long as man has existed. Forbidden by all religions, suicide has nonetheless become such a p...

A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaning From public transportation a...

In this comprehensive handbook, a leading group of experts improve our understanding of the challenges faced by children when coping with death, dy...

End-of-life experiences are often viewed in terms of only one perspective such as medicine. In this volume, a variety of end-of life experiences ar...

“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...

"Today, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has the benefit of all the methods and means at the disposal of forensic medic...

Through firsthand accounts and research, Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly focuses on the education, training, and support of individua...

Three months to live. José Maria, a contemplative engineer in late middle age, and now a victim of leukemia, has received a death sentence from h...

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with thos...

A recurring theme of the public discourse on immigration in Europe today is that migrants are primarily young people, of working age. Against this ...

Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigen...

What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical questions Heather Pool asks in Poli...

What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical questions Heather Pool asks in Poli...

Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of anima...

Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted...

Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true. "Dead in Banaras" is an instance of just such a fa...

"The book is well organized, well detailed, and well referenced; it is an invaluable sourcebook for researchers and clinicians working in the area ...

James Crissman explores cultural traits related to death and dying in Appalachian sections of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and We...

What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1900, decide to suffer no longer “the slings and...

George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English ...

In Essays on the Pleasure of Death, Ellie Ragland discusses the interconnection of Freud and Lacan's theories, while maintaining that crucial diffe...

George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English ...