Sociology: death and dying

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.

Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying.

This book expands the art historical perspective on art's connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies from various methodological perspectives.

The Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus as Savior, preparedness for the life to come and for any spiritual battle that might ensue when on the threshold of death, and death not taking place in isolation.

The first ever full-length study exploring how Dickens''s fiction engaged with, responded to, and even exploited Victorian attitudes to death.

Death is an unanswerable question for humanity, the question that always remains unanswered because it lies beyond human experience.

Dying and Death in Canada offers a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective.

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

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

This core introductory text, with a focus on clinical application, combines the knowledge and skills of counseling psychology with current theory and research in grief and bereavement.

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

'I have yet to come away from reading [Bering's] work and not feel considerably better informed than I was minutes before' (Forbes)__________________This penetrating analysis aims to demystify a subject that knows no cultural or demographic boundaries.

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science.

This book argues that dying and bereavement are issues for all social care practitioners, illustrating the wide variety of ways in which they are involved.

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across a wide range of fields.

The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part.

Well-known authors in the field of ageing and spirituality present their considered contributions to current understandings in this fast-changing field.

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices.

Mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, but death and violence continue to be staples of popular television.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

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

This book examines the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914.

Does bodily death mean the complete destruction of a person?

In this exploration of how people lived and died in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century New Mexico, Martina Will weaves together the stories of individuals and communities in this cultural crossroads of the American Southwest.

Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases.

The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca.

Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers.

Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth.

It s not the dream that matters, it s the telling of the dream the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mindThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others.

Winner: Richard B.

*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*A near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon whereby powerful physical and emotional sensations and visions are experienced by someone who is either close to death or has been declared clinically dead.

Blending illustrative narratives from veterans with cutting-edge research, this book provides a model for a needed shift from treatment post-trauma to psychological training pre-trauma to prevent deep depression and resulting suicides.

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

All human beings encounter loss and death, as well as the grief associated with these experiences.

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story.

Suicide remains all too common in the United States.

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment.

Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of funerary practices in Serbia.

A study of expression of grief among the working class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live?

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

As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly.

The suicides of Hitler, Goebbels, Bormann, Himmler, and later Goering at the end of World War II were only the most prominent in a suicide epidemic that has no historical parallel and that can tell us much about the Third Reich's peculiar self-destructiveness and the depths of Nazi fanaticism.