Sociology: death and dying

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

The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.

Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski.

Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski.

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How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives.

AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING"e;Amazing and profound .

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF UNNATURAL CAUSESWhat happens to your body after you have died?

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Essential, clever and kind' Alain de Botton'I am a huge admirer of Julia's work' Elizabeth Day____________________In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her sessions as she explores the relationships that have the power to touch us and hurt us most: those with our family.

A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse'Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book' Andrew Marr'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures.

A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving itWhat are the top regrets of the dying?

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues.

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority.

In this remarkable book psychologist Marie de Hennezel draws upon her personal experience of working with the terminally ill in a palliative care unit in Paris.

This is the story of an award-winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was diagnosed with a brain tumour by his own MRI machine at the age of thirty.

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge.

More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice.

How do the living maintain relations to the dead?

Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death.

Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death.

Bardwell L.

Marketing Death is the first book to offer an analysis of the emergence of a life insurance market outside of a Western context.

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States.

Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, Michael Kearl draws on anthropology, religion, politics, philosophy, the natural sciences, economics, and psychology to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death, showing how death contributes to social change and how the meanings of death are generated to serve social functions.

The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s.

While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions.

Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today.

Literary modernism emerged as death, stripped in the developing world of traditional meanings and practices, became strange.

The questions that surround death--Is death a harm to the person who dies?

In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death.

Christianity is a religion of salvation in which believers have always anticipated post-mortem bliss for the faithful and non-salvation for others.

Acts of martyrdom have been found in nearly all the worlds major religious traditions.

In spite of society's wish to protect and insulate children from death, the experience of loss is unavoidable and there is surprisingly little guidance on how to help children cope with grief and bereavement.

Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable.

Is death merely the cessation of life?

Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience?

The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death.

Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "e;near-death"e; experiences have appeared in the past decade.

Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati.

What is death?

How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century?

In his new book, Richard Fenn looks at the way in which we experience time in a secular society.

Since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, the virus has caused more than 1 million deaths in the United States and 7 million deaths worldwide.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.