Sociology: death and dying

What drives a person to take his or her own life?

Being Brett is a memoir that chronicles the author's daughter's harrowing struggle with Hodgkin's disease.

All the information you need after mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery so that you can focus on what matters most: healing and staying well.

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew.

This study explores the female experience of death in early modern England.

From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice.

Steigende Ansteckungszahlen mit Syphilis und Gonorrhoe im und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg waren in vielen Ländern Europas und Nordamerikas Anlass für Aufklärungskampagnen.

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

The World of Obituaries looks at obituaries as a rich source of information on cultural representations of gender.

In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "e;the new chronic.

As unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from an expert witness perspective, providing the insights necessary to ensure a complete investigation.

The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society.

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying.

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century.

The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law.

This book comprehensively examines children''s ideas about death, both biological and religious.

This book looks at suicidal and risk-taking behaviour.

Japan's suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a "e;Suicide Nation"e;.

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death.

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'.

A lively and engaging discussion about the nature of death and the permissibility or otherwise of killing.

The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero.

With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone.

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.

Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D.

The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the 'resurrection' of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death.

Das Sterbethema – Publikationen hierzu sind vornehmlich in der Philosophie, der Theologie und der Psychologie angesiedelt.

Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to uncover the mystery behind mummies and the mummification phenomena.

The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas.

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Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most.

The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful.

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

Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Incarceration Without Conviction addresses an understudied fairness flaw in the criminal justice system.

A fascinating exploration of the universal human experience of death.

This book presents findings from a process evaluation carried out at a problem-solving court located in England: Manchester Review Court.

In the aftermath of suicide, friends and family face a long road of grief and reflection.

A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care, including grief and bereavement The needs of individuals with life-limiting or terminal illness and those caring for them are well documented.

From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice.

"e;I found this book to be a well-written, sensitively presented, and important resource for those engaged in this critical area of work.

Through a range of case studies, this book traces how death shaped cities, and vice versa.

This fully updated second edition of Grief in Children provides an accessible overview of children's understanding of death at different ages and gives a detailed outline of exactly how the adults around them can best help them cope.

In a land faraway, there is a village where nobody likes to mix with anyone who is different from them.

This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities.