Sociology: death and dying

This book explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the west through historical and multidisciplinary frameworks, examining both how the criminal corpse was viewed as a repository of power and how it held significant cultural meaning as material relic.

"e;Occasionally I read a book and say to myself that this is a book that I wished I had written.

Stillbirth, miscarriage and termination of pregnancy are emotionally laden experiences, providing particular challenges for health professionals.

The suicides of Hitler, Goebbels, Bormann, Himmler, and later Goering at the end of World War II were only the most prominent in a suicide epidemic that has no historical parallel and that can tell us much about the Third Reich's peculiar self-destructiveness and the depths of Nazi fanaticism.

Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live.

Suicide remains all too common in the United States.

Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also create an added value for living through the growth of afterlife beliefs.

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

Neben Medizin und Pflege spielt die Soziale Arbeit bei der Begleitung von Patient*innen und ihren Familien die wichtigste Rolle im multiprofessionellen Palliative Care Team.

This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer, whose work on a wide range of topics over the past 40 years has been transformative and inspirational.

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.

Discusses how the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, is inscribed within human bodies.

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design.

Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War.

Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities.

Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry.

The meaning of our concern for mortal remains-from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge.

Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups.

Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying.

This book is a collection of mortality abstracts based on recent follow-up studies on the results of health disorders from the abstracts and articles appearing recently in the Journal of Insurance Medicine.

Marketing Death is the first book to offer an analysis of the emergence of a life insurance market outside of a Western context.

';Still is one of those rare books that catches you up and does not let you go.

'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIANA near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death-and what might follow-by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

Well-known authors in the field of ageing and spirituality present their considered contributions to current understandings in this fast-changing field.

A convincing critique of the neglect of death in psychoanalytic theory, arguing that death has been a repressed subject in psychoanalysis.

In Death Watch, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality.

This book explores the themes of memory and mourning from the Roman deathbed to the Roman cemetery, drawing subject matter from the literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Rome.

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.

Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on funerary practice in Poland.

A very personal look at Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Recent scandals involving the use of human body parts have highlighted the need for legal clarification surrounding property law and the use of human tissue.

Thousands, perhaps millions, of people have had near-death experiences (NDEs).

There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear.

Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology.

Society has become increasingly diverse; multi-cultural, multi-faith and wide ranging in family structures.

Increasingly, scholars from many disciplines have begun to incorporate various modalities from the humanities and arts - novels, films, artwork, and other forms of expression - to help connect students with the experience of aging in deeply meaningful and person-centered ways.

A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregiversspouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and illilluminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policyand providing comfort in the time-honored form of shared experience (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

How animals conceive of death and dyingand what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed.

Winner, 2007 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies AssociationWinner, 2008 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of ReligionWinner, 2011 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta KappaShortlisted, 2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of ReligionLonglisted, 2008 Cundill International Prize and Lecture in HIstory at McGill UniversityIn his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources.

Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind's understanding of physiological death.

As unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from an expert witness perspective, providing the insights necessary to ensure a complete investigation.

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation.

Michael K.

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge.

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the past, present, and future direction of death rituals and deathcare systems within Japan.

The role of capital punishment in America has been criticised by those for and against the death penalty, by the judiciary, academics, the media and by prison personnel.

Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination?

This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities.