Sociology: death and dying

While grief is suffered in all cultures, it is expressed differently all over the world in accordance with local customs and beliefs.

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.

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.

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

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

Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known.

Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known.

What happens to us when we die?

What happens to us when we die?

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concerning the validity of death penalty, the right to life, and torture.

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concerning the validity of death penalty, the right to life, and torture.

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality.

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality.

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

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

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.

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.

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an 'epidemic' of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome.

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an 'epidemic' of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome.

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

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.