Sociology: death and dying

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice - disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences.

For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood.

Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race.

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject.

The trauma of losing a sibling when we are in our adult years is one of the most unrecognized and undertreated areas of psychology.

A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death, dying, and the afterlife, drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic perspectives.

The Reformation led those who embraced Martin Luther's teachings to revise virtually every aspect of their faith and to reorder their daily lives in view of their new beliefs.

';All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign.

A lively and engaging discussion about the nature of death and the permissibility or otherwise of killing.

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story.

Biotechnology and the Challenge of Property addresses the question of how the advancement of property law is capable of controlling the interests generated by the engineering of human tissues.

The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.

Bardwell L.

Dying and Death in Canada offers a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective.

As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism.

All human beings encounter loss and death, as well as the grief associated with these experiences.

Sarah Tarlow''s interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland.

Women occupy a privileged place in horror film.

The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, to the point that people spend a major portion of waking life in online spaces.

Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work.

Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines.

Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn t.

In response to increased academic interest in the fields of death studies, memorial studies, and human and animal studies, Skin, Meaning and Symbolism in Pet Memorials examines the mourning rituals which exist between people and their domestic pets.

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths.

In the aftermath of suicide, friends and family face a long road of grief and reflection.

This collection discusses appropriate methodologies for comparative research and applies this to the issue of trial transformation in the context of achieving justice in post-conflict societies.

From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the 'other world' - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media, or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration, media of various kinds are central to the communication and performance of death-related socio-cultural practices of individuals, groups and societies.

Mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, but death and violence continue to be staples of popular television.

Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those experiences have a protracted course.

"e;David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contribution to the field.

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across a wide range of fields.

Dans ce livre, Éric Crubézy nous emmène à la découverte des rites funéraires du monde entier et nous montre, à travers des documents inédits, qu’il est possible, malgré leur diversité apparente, de relier des pratiques aussi différentes que l’enterrement chrétien et le retournement des morts à Madagascar.

Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and families posing for portraits with deceased loved ones--are often depicted as bizarre or scary.

The period following the death of a friend or loved one can be tumultuous for anyone, but can be especially difficult for children, with lasting effects if the loss is not acknowledged or supported.

Do Funerals Matter?

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform movement.

Few religious leaders have examined the potential for the positive impact of digital media and digital immortality creation in religious contexts.

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture.

This edited volume explores the wide range of practice situations across the human services in which issues loss and grief are likely to be important.

Build a strong foundation on the principles and procedures of modern forensic science.

Reveals the remarkable change in our sense of self following the loss of a parent.

Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known.

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

This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences.

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death.