Sociology: death and dying

A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka - Kafka wrote "e;Hunger Artist"e; as he was starving to death.

In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman using his college LSD trips to explain death to his children; and he gets to know his own grandparents, posthumously.

Im vorliegenden Werk mit dem Titel ›Die Erfindung der Sklaverei‹ entfaltet der Autor eine fesselnde Analyse, die den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der Sklaverei in verschiedenen Gesellschaften kritisch beleuchtet.

Death is a hard topic to talk about, but exploring it openly can lead to a new understanding about how to live.

Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide.

A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.

En este lúcido y terrible ensayo, Elias centra su atención en el fenómeno de la muerte tal como Occidente la enfrenta.

Armando Bartra realiza un recorrido por la historia de las epidemias, sus contextos socioculturales y la forma de afrontarlas, que culmina en la actual pandemia de Covid-19.

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.

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives.

It is hardly necessary to explain the purpose of this work.

El primer gran problema que tiene el ser humano es la muerte.

What should medicine do when it cant save your life?

The acclaimed science author's illustrated exploration of death from ancient burial practices to the latest theories of immortality, resurrection and more.

A New York Times-bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the US Army unit stationed at Arlington National Cemetery.

Comfort Words for Loss, Grief, and BereavementHere is a book of exquisite honesty and profound depth.

This story is about one narcissistic young man who was interested in self-gratification regardless of who got hurt or even killed in the process.

Rand was initially puzzled as to why young spirits wanted to speak through her—she had no children of her own and the responsibility of talking with people who had lost theirs seemed too great to bear.