Sociology: Death & Dying

The analogy of the torn fabric was first used by the author in response to a bereaved mother's cry: "I know what grief feels like; I don't know wha...

Losses may provide a turning point where an individual faces personal and social choices. Still, one may derive significance through the experience...

The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella m...

The goal of this book is to fully explore what the author refers to as 'the near epidemic levels of suicide and homicide-suicide' among law enforce...

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

What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace...

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...

“[S]heds light not only on the obstacles to making motherhood safer, but to improving the health of poor populations in general.”—Social Anthropo...

The study of funeral monuments is a growing field, but monuments erected to commemorate children have so far received little attention. Whilst the ...

This book is a research-based text and emphasizes cultural factors that often significantly affect the adolescent coping with death. It provides co...

In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the wo...

In this major new study Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet provide a timely and wide-ranging account of the changing nature of suicide in the wo...

From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the c...

Life and death are never far apart in Egyptian culture and society, and Bridget McDermott's book looks beyond funerary rites and mummification to e...

In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500–1800, 11 authors combine elements of social, cultural, legal, and intelle...

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men ...

This book examines what we know about the phenomenon of suicide by cop and places this behavior in a broader context. For example, some murder vict...

Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places througho...

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men ...

"He was my best friend." "I feel like I've lost that one person I could always count on." Siblings know each other in ways friends and other blood ...

The main questions raised in this book are: How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of ...

The main questions raised in this book are: How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of ...

In this thought-provoking memoir, Nancy Gerber maps the wrenching terrain of caring for an elderly parent. In the fall of 1995, at the age of 73, t...

A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of search...

Near death experiences fascinate everyone, from theologians to sociologists and neuroscientists. This groundbreaking book introduces the phenomenon...

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left ...

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Wester...

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Wester...

On November 16, 1984, Sue Chance's son committed suicide. In this vivid personal account of the aftermath of that event, she shares her pain, guilt...

This book investigates the language created and used on social media to express and respond to personal experiences of illness, dying and mourning....

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book ex...

On the Way to Death completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy, death, and God. It addresses itself to the question...

A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of...

This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long ...

Where are the dead? What are they doing? What kind of a process is dying? What relationships exist among the dead themselves, and between the dead...

This book examines research on death, dying and bereavement, and how our approaches, perceptions and expectations shapes what we can know about the...

The Introduction chapter of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It ...

Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage with othe...

Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of "predictable death...

Each year, more than one million people and their loved-ones arrive at a decision to cease attempts at curative medical treatments and shift to hos...

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence, along with his 19...

This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for ...

This book offers the first comprehensive study of Czech funerary practices to be published in English. It provides an in-depth account of the hist...

Drawing on feminist theory, as well as theory surrounding the correlation between poverty and suicide, this study explores the increased rate of su...

What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious...

In the early 1970s bereavement support groups were almost unknown. However, the obvious benefits of the group process for recovery - the mutual sup...

This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. In this third edition previous chapters are throrughly ...