Sociology: death and dying

A critical review of research and reflection in the area of death, with special emphasis on death education.

A critical review of research and reflection in the area of death, with special emphasis on death education.

Here is an excellent new book packed with state-of-the-art information on thanatology.

Here is an excellent new book packed with state-of-the-art information on thanatology.

Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children.

Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children.

Hospice Care and Cultural Diversity captures the richness and differences that make up the United States and its culture.

Hospice Care and Cultural Diversity captures the richness and differences that make up the United States and its culture.

Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear.

Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear.

This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement.

This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement.

First published in 1996.

First published in 1996.

Explores what couple and individual stories say and do not say about the child's dying and death and about parent grief.

Explores what couple and individual stories say and do not say about the child's dying and death and about parent grief.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1991.

First published in 1991.

This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying.

This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying.

Derived from years of actual experience in conducting bereavement support groups with grieving children, this unique program offers direct advice and tools for creating and conducting your own bereavement support group for children.

Derived from years of actual experience in conducting bereavement support groups with grieving children, this unique program offers direct advice and tools for creating and conducting your own bereavement support group for children.

More and more people are considering a career in nursing or healthcare, but the thought of undertaking an academic degree at university can be intimidating.

More and more people are considering a career in nursing or healthcare, but the thought of undertaking an academic degree at university can be intimidating.

First published in 1991.

First published in 1991.

This innovative and informative new text bridges the fields of gerontology and thanatology.

This innovative and informative new text bridges the fields of gerontology and thanatology.

First published in 1997.

First published in 1997.

Throughout our lives, we are influenced by the sensation of loss.

Throughout our lives, we are influenced by the sensation of loss.

This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial.

This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial.

Does a dying child understand death?

Does a dying child understand death?

In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking.

In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking.

None of us will escape the experience of personal loss, illness, aging, or mortality.

None of us will escape the experience of personal loss, illness, aging, or mortality.

First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication.

First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication.

Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies.

Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies.

Death has never been more visible to consumers.

Death has never been more visible to consumers.