Sociology: Death & Dying

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death’s enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarla...

The book Approaches to Death and Dying: Bioethical and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Marta Szabat and Jan Piasecki, is part of a still too narro...

Winner of the Merle Curti AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Louis Gottschalk PrizeLonglisted for the Cundill Prize“Vincent Brow...

An up-to-date review of recent research into suicide and self-injury in prisons, making links between the research, the prison context, and related...

This book provides an historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the present.

Every day, we hear about and experience griefs, large and small, in our families, friendships, communities, and worldwide. The grief of a loved one...

To date, mourning has not featured prominently in studies of ancient Roman society, and this book redresses this by presenting a comprehensive anal...

In November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching. “When will you be home?” Steve asked. “I have news.”  So bega...

A lyrical meditation on time, survival, and merciful moments of joy Sara Henning’s Burn draws readers deep into the moments that make us, focusing ...

Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will d...

From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of t...

Farmers' suicides' have been typically framed through official statistics and they have been explained in terms of agrarian economic distress. This...

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The boo...

It’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream – the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mindThis is a dream...

Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks-...

'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and bo...

An intimate meditation on aging and dying in exile among elderly Tibetans in Dharamsala, India In a Tibetan saying, the journey of life is likened ...

In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through convers...

An intimate meditation on aging and dying in exile among elderly Tibetans in Dharamsala, India In a Tibetan saying, the journey of life is likened ...

In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through convers...