Sociology: death and dying

¿Por qué una persona dedica su vida al estudio de la muerte y su sufrimiento?

Get real, biblical answers to all your questions about life after death.

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses.

Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D.

Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.

The eighteen papers collected in this volume - fifteen of which are published in English for the first time - explore the transformations of religious practices between the third and the fifth centuries in the Western part of the Roman Empire.

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled 'inexplicable' - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful.

During the last two centuries, the job of policing in Britain has been transformed several times.

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

«En ese preciso momento, desde Punta del Este me escribió una prima para vernos y recuerdo que le escribí: "Mi hijo murió".

A fascinating insight into the strange world of collectors of the macabre, Morbid Curiosities features 18 unique collections and an extensive interview with each collector, explaining how and why they collect, and showcasing the most remarkable pieces from each collection.

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

En 1851, Arthur Schopenhauer formuló una metáfora que describe la dificultad para encontrar un equilibrio entre la proximidad y la distancia en las relaciones interpersonales.

Einst war er fixer Bestandteil des menschlichen Daseins und des gesellschaftlichen Alltags: Heute wird der Tod verdrängt, jeder Gedanke an das unweigerliche Ende so lange wie möglich hinausgeschoben.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

We all must die, and how society deals with the disposal is fascinating in the way it reflects the beliefs of the people of the time and ways in which they honor or do not honor the dead.

We all must die, and how society deals with the disposal is fascinating in the way it reflects the beliefs of the people of the time and ways in which they honor or do not honor the dead.

Kann Kunst heilen?

En Por mano propia, Diana Cohen Agrest analiza el lugar que las prácticas suicidas han adquirido en el imaginario social y se pregunta acerca del sentido de la vida humana y sobre el derecho para autodeterminar el fin de la propia existencia.

A look at the constant confrontation with mortality the English experienced in a time of plague, smallpox, civil war, and other calamities.

A look at the constant confrontation with mortality the English experienced in a time of plague, smallpox, civil war, and other calamities.

An archeological study of burial grounds across England, shedding light on pagan executions, the Black Death, and much more.

Whatever our background, bias, or beliefs, there is one truth to which each is bound and from which none can escape: sooner or later, we will die.

An anthology of 100 obituaries written by journalist Rahul Bedi.

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.

This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives.

This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact - a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact - a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare.

Alles, was wir anfangen, geht seinem Ende entgegen; vom Moment der Geburt an ist der Mensch Abschieden ausgesetzt.

Alles, was wir anfangen, geht seinem Ende entgegen; vom Moment der Geburt an ist der Mensch Abschieden ausgesetzt.

Es gibt Fragen, die sich niemand gern stellt: Wann dürfen wir Sterben zulassen?

Wie man bis zuletzt lacht und dem Tod mit Tusche ein wenig von seinem Schrecken nimmt, zeigt dieser Cartoonband über Humor am Krankenbett und in der Palliative Care.

Das Leben ist endlich und geht früher oder später unweigerlich auf den Tod zu.

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

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

There is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is "e;crossing over.

In every moment of the day of Judgment, from the moment you rise from their grave to when you take your place in the assembly.

This book explains why suicide can be alluring to a person aiming to stop his or her traumatic pain-whether its source is bullying, sexual assault, war combat, or other PTSD-invoking events-and details approaches that can prevent suicide.

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years.

The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view.

Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history.

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands.

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying.

Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how "e;taking action"e; against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the "e;gray zone"e;, a space where legal and policy prescriptions do not hold.