Sociology: death and dying

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

"e;I am learning the alchemy of grief-how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted-but I have not yet mastered this art,"e; writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country.

Delivers the collective wisdom of foremost scholars and practitioners in the death and dying movement from its inception to the present.

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

Virginia's capital city knew poverty, injustice, slavery, vagrancy, substandard working conditions, street crimes, brutality, unsanitary conditions, and pandemics.

A mention of mummification immediately brings to mind the ancient Egyptians--but the Roman Catholic Church has long used the practice to preserve notable members of its faith.

Throughout the ages, the mysteries of what happens when we die and the nature of the human mind have fascinated us.

This reference work contains details of all the crimes resulting in executions in the fifteen western American territories.

This updated edition of the 1992 reference work ("e;exhaustive.

This work brings together a unique range of sources to reveal a forgotten episode in London's history.

Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed coverage of the related subjects of reincarnation and karma.

Literally the last word for Hollywood trivia buffs, a celebrity death certificate is also strangely compelling.

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

A powerful, behind-the-scenes look at some of America's all-time favorite television programs during their darkest hours, this study examines how various hit series have absorbed the death of a lead actor during production.

Awareness of mortality is the price of intelligent consciousness.

In Sorrows of a Century, John Weaver describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness, and legal troubles have driven thousands to despair.

In Sorrows of a Century, John Weaver describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness, and legal troubles have driven thousands to despair.

A reasoned, passionate, and wide-ranging enquiry into the euthanasia debate and its consequences for individuals and society.

Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it?

This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "e;naming"e; has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies.

This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "e;naming"e; has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies.

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.

Dorais and Lajeunesse analyse the adverse ways being stigmatized as homosexual affects personality and behaviour, discerning four types of reaction: the 'perfect boy,' whose perfectionism and asexuality are an attempt to minimize the difference between how he is perceived and what he is supposed to be; the 'chameleon,' who attempts to keep everyone from suspecting his secret but constantly feels like an impostor; the 'token fag,' who serves as a scapegoat to his peers, especially at school, and suffers a consequent rejection and lack of self-esteem; and the 'rebel,' who actively rejects any stigma based on his sexual orientation and non-conformity.

In Cancer Stories five people share their journeys, their stories, and the suffering they faced before their deaths.

Fondé en 1852, le cimetière Mont-Royal est depuis longtemps un espace public cher aux Montréalais.

Respectable Burial also highlights how important a role Montreal played in Canada's history.

The main questions raised in this book are: How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning?

In Suicide Prevention Contracting: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Seven Safer Alternatives, Edwards and Goj expose one of the biggest myths operating in health care and human services for forty years or more.

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr.

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

In Subconscious Journeys, Jack Mitchell explores the human mind and its connection to life, death, disease, and the probability of extended life.

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.

A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers.

A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution.

Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, since earliest times.

Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, since earliest times.

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement.

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

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

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying.

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying.

John Birmingham's father died.

The latest developments in the arguments for and against assisted dying, with a foreword by Terry PratchettAssisted dying is perhaps one of the most divisive issues of the modern age, generating endless headlines and moral debates.

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A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution.