Sociology: death and dying

Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide.

Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time.

This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology.

This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology.

Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time.

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science.

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science.

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.

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.

This collection of essays presents a contextual view of genocide.

This collection of essays presents a contextual view of genocide.

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 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.

Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist seances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siecle.

Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist seances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siecle.

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

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

Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies.

Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies.

Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison.

Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison.

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

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

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems.

There has been a general assumption in the international debate surrounding organ procurement that Presumed Consent (opting-out) systems produce better results than Express Consent (opting-in) systems.

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them.

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them.

The Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus as Savior, preparedness for the life to come and for any spiritual battle that might ensue when on the threshold of death, and death not taking place in isolation.

The Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus as Savior, preparedness for the life to come and for any spiritual battle that might ensue when on the threshold of death, and death not taking place in isolation.

This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life.

This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life.

Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world.

Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world.

Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead be a philosophy of care.

Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead be a philosophy of care.

In October 1994, fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Quebec were murdered or committed suicide.

In October 1994, fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Quebec were murdered or committed suicide.

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

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

A study of the German minority in the Serbian Banat during World War II, its self-perception and its collaboration with the Nazis.

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

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

Examines how state government policies and their historic beginnings have present-day effects on their residents'' political lives and on population health, especially for marginalized groups.

This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked.

Examines how state government policies and their historic beginnings have present-day effects on their residents'' political lives and on population health, especially for marginalized groups.

This study creates a holistic research base by looking at the demographics of the ageing population and reviewing existing studies.

This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South''s defining experiences with death.

This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South''s defining experiences with death.

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century Greece.

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century Greece.