Sociology: death and dying

The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view.

The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s.

Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms.

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Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries.

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

The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners.

Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) was an American author.

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes'No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life'Macabre, authoritative and fascinating.

The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles.

Mike Fechner had cofounded an urban renewal ministry called H.

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.

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A recent coinage within international relations, nation branding designates the process of highlighting a country s positive characteristics for promotional purposes, using techniques similar to those employed in marketing and public relations.

This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller s Guide to Medieval EnglandWe know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul?

This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type.

At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields.

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.

Usually conceived in opposition to each other - birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending - this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living.

This book examines the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914.

Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to death more than 700 men and women for a wide variety of capital crimes ranging from army desertion to murder.

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

This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers.

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Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility.

This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement-a universal experience across humanity.

For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by archaeologists.

Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination?

Human development is not simply about wealth and economic well-being, it is also dependent upon shared values that cherish the sanctity of human life.

iHo is a vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement.

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large.

Death in Custody considers the participation of bereaved families in an inquest following a death in custody.

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.

The first ever full-length study exploring how Dickens''s fiction engaged with, responded to, and even exploited Victorian attitudes to death.

The Genocide Convention explores the question of whether the law and genocide law in particular can prevent mass atrocities.

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

Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between nostalgia and religion.

Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse.

This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States.

The Divine Art of Dying explores the time when individuals facing a life-limiting illness make critical decisions about how they will live until they die.

This highly original work provides a thought-provoking and valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in genocide, criminology, international organizations, and law and society.

Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss, and yet death and dying are topics that are rarely discussed or analysed in the academic space, especially in combination with music studies.

Freud und seine Nachfolger haben sich von Anfang an mit dem Thema ''Tod und Sterben'' beschäftigt, zunächst vor allem durch das Konzept der Trauerarbeit.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact - a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare.

This highly original work provides a thought-provoking and valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in genocide, criminology, international organizations, and law and society.

This book presents findings from a process evaluation carried out at a problem-solving court located in England: Manchester Review Court.

Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement.

Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects and is one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect.