Sociology: Death & Dying

From Nietzsche's pronouncement that God is dead to Camus' argument that suicide is the fundamental question of philosophy, the concept of death pla...

As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This...

an eye-opening tour of the varied ways cultures grapple with what lies beyond - Publisher's WeeklyThis illuminating book reveals how cultures and c...

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of deaths enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarlai...

The explicit purpose of this book is to analyze dying and death in the cosmopolitan, modern setting. There is, however, an additional theme that is...

Communication is at the heart of any complete understanding of the end of life. While it is true that individuals physically die as a single entity...

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects h...

Explores the impact of changing medical practices on ordinary people in nineteenth-century America. How does the experience of sickness, death, and...

With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many ...

The inspiring and powerful book about navigating loss from acclaimed grief coach and New York Times bestselling author Hope Edelman, featuring an e...

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ORGANIZED MIND 'Everyone we know needs this remarkable book ... Essential for...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with ...

AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORL...

In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, un...

Burial places were of prime importance for Jewish communities throughout history, even more essential than synagogue buildings. For this reason, th...

With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many ...

Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book exp...