Sociology: death and dying

Refreshingly forthright New York Times | Extraordinary Laura Lynne Jackson | Beautifully written Katy Butler | Tender and transformative Christie Tate | Meaningful and sublime Theresa BrownWhat can life s final moments teach us about living well today?

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.

A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house.

This book explores, for the first time, the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years.

This book reviews the spectrum of death, from when the living person turns to corpse until the person lives in the memory of mourners, and its impact on the ecology of the socio-cultural community and physical environment.

Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment.

With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo.

Since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, the virus has caused more than 1 million deaths in the United States and 7 million deaths worldwide.

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, including bodies, materials and digital artefacts.

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No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way.

Since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, the virus has caused more than 1 million deaths in the United States and 7 million deaths worldwide.

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary.

This book argues that dying and bereavement are issues for all social care practitioners, illustrating the wide variety of ways in which they are involved.

Acts of martyrdom have been found in nearly all the worlds major religious traditions.

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

Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed coverage of the related subjects of reincarnation and karma.

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place.

As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging.

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

Photography represents a medium in which the moment of death can be captured and preserved, the image becoming a mechanism through which audiences are beguiled by the certainty of their own mortality.

Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity.

The first book to explore the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears.

A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution.

The eighteen papers collected in this volume - fifteen of which are published in English for the first time - explore the transformations of religious practices between the third and the fifth centuries in the Western part of the Roman Empire.

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.

Despite the numerous vicious conflicts that scarred the twentieth century, the horrors of the Western Front continue to exercise a particularly strong hold on the modern imagination.

Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question.

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death.

Mass violence and terrorism are a salient phenomenon in the late modern society, showing no sign of decline.

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city.

Set against a volatile political landscape, Irish republican culture has struggled to maintain continuity with the past, affirm legitimacy in the present, and generate a sense of community for the future.

Based on a content analysis of writing assignments from a class on death and dying, this book focuses on the manner in which college students use religion to make sense of death and the dying process.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology.

The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part.

Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared.

The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location.

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon.

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.

At the beginning of the 19th century, physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers.

'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in MindWe all know how this ends is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives.

How many minutes can you survive after cardiac arrest?

This book explores conceptions of the soul and the afterlife that are consistent with the findings of modern science.

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

The introduction of the continuing bonds model of grief near the end of the 20th century revolutionized the way researchers and practitioners understand bereavement.

For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all.