Sociology: death and dying

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of death and the possibilities for an afterlife.

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.

The Executioner's Toll, 2010 is a meticulous examination of every execution (and the details surrounding the execution) carried out in a single year--and a thought-provoking exploration into the minds of 46 killers as each plays the role of predator, quarry and condemned.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the 21st century.

When journalist Jill Smolowe buried her husband, sister, mother, and mother-in-law in the space of seventeen months, she assumed that it was only a matter of time before she fell apart.

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

Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismaticteacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina.

A welcome read for the lay person who has been bereaved and is now experiencing the difficulties of loving again.

Dying at the Margins: Reflections on Justice and Healing for Inner-City Poor gives voice to the most vulnerable and disempowered population-the urban dying poor- and connects them to the voices of leaders in end-of-life-care.

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

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

This title was originally published in 1973.

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.

Cemetery and landscape studies have been hallmarks of North African archaeology for more than one hundred years.

The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement.

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a heart transplant at age nineteen.

Arguing that the female criminal subject was central to the rise of the British novel, Kirsten T.

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.

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

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

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

How we die reveals much about how we live.

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.

In "e;A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying"e; Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, a physician and a clinical psychologist with many years of experience, offer insights to help medical students, residents, physicians, nurses, and others become more aware of the different stages in the dying process and learn how to communicate more effectively with patients and their families.

The early accounts of one of the most famous scenes in Christian history, the death of Peter, do not present a single narrative of the events, for they do not agree on why Peter requested to die in the precise way that he allegedly did.

This is a definitive study of films that have been built around the themes of love, death, and the afterlife-films about lovers who meet again (and love again) in heaven, via reincarnation, or through other kinds of after-death encounters.

Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our relationship with death.

Attitudes towards death are shaped by our social worlds.

Engaging with the Dead adopts a cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead.

Differences in attitudes to death and dying in two distinct social classes, the ecclesiastics and the nobility.

';Some guys don't break any rules.

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 book offers an ethnographic exploration of three sites of infamous atrocity and their differing memorialization.

This work has deep bearing on the socio-economic condition of widows in Indian sub-continent where the discrimination against them is still rife.

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.

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.

Fourth Edition Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

The latest plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Doubt

This collection of essays presents a contextual view of genocide.

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.

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

St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London.

The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement sets issues of death and dying in a broad and holistic social context.

This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves.

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

Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders.

Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essentially historical and artistic point of view.