Sociology: death and dying

How have people sought to understand loss and bereavement?

In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job.

Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world.

The inevitability of deaththat of others and our ownis surely among our greatest anxieties.

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.

Tod und Sterben sind in Psychotherapien und Beratungen wichtige und grundlegende Themen.

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.

This book examines the question of death in the light of Heidegger's paradigmatic discussion in Being and Time.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

"e;David Balk, who has devoted most of his professional life to teaching and especially with college students and their life journeys, offers Helping the Bereaved College Student as a major contribution to the field.

Das Hauptanliegen ist Frieden.

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.

I have Stayed.

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

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.

"e;[Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan] represents a significant advance because it looks at the issues from a bio-psychosocial perspective.

The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought.

This interdisciplinary collection presents valuable discourse and reflection on the nature of a good death.

Motherhood after Incarceration: Community Reintegration for Mothers in the Criminal Legal System explores the relationships of women with their children immediately after periods of incarceration.

"e;Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor and pain of life.

Die Corona-Pandemie bestimmt unsere Lebenswirklichkeit, verändert unseren Alltag und schränkt selbstverständliche Freiheiten ein.

Embodied encounters with death affect humans deeply, with the power to crush, transform and strengthen individuals and relationships.

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For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future.

'Dr Chloe helped me understand how to grieve and keep living, how to find the light in the darkest of days.

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.

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

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary.

A Safe Place for Caleb is a comprehensive and richly illustrated resource for individuals of all ages who are dealing with attachment problems.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on deathand what might followby the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

This is a biography of the controversial and flamboyant nineteenth century doctor Francis Tumblety.

Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards.

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries.

It aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence.

The Neolithic of the Near East is a period of human development which saw fundamental changes in the nature of human society.

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

During his playing career, a baseball player's every action on the field is documented--every at bat, every hit, every pitch.

How do the living maintain relations to the dead?

English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse.

Seit 1990 hat sich die Kinderhospizarbeit zu einem wichtigen Pfeiler im Unterstützungssystem für lebensverkürzend erkrankte Kinder/Jugendliche und ihre Familien entwickelt.

Despite the recent history of violence and destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina holds a positive place in history, marked by a continuous interweaving of different religious cultures.

In Death, Materiality and Mediation, Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with remembrance in both the public and private arenas through ethnography of communities on both sides of the Irish border.

The philosopher Michel de Montaigne said that facing our mortality is the only way to learn the 'art of living'.

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.

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.

'An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person' CARIAD LLOYD'Brilliantly, brilliantly written .

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.

Creating Meaning in Funerals is a book about the ways in which bereaved families and communities create meaningful ceremonies against a backdrop of what is culturally appropriate, even when their choices might make little economic sense to those outside the culture.