Sociology: death & dying books

Every day 10,000 people in the US turn 65 and most are without a paradigm for being content if they do not have...  Read More >>

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New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in...  Read More >>

Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination? In her analysis of literary and cultural representations...  Read More >>

Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead...  Read More >>

There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief...  Read More >>

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On average, seven kids under the age of nineteen are shot dead in America every day. Here, award-winning journalist...  Read More >>

The authors employ a wide range of perspectives, demonstrating how bioarchaeological evidence can be used to address...  Read More >>

Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these...  Read More >>

On average, seven kids under the age of nineteen are shot dead in America every day. Here, award-winning journalist...  Read More >>

Award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of ten young people fatally shot during the course...  Read More >>

Das Mittelmeer ist ein Raum der Mobilität, aber auch des Todes. Das Meer birgt Gefahren und bringt Menschen zueinander,...  Read More >>

Pflege und Palliativmedizin sind in der öffentlichen Diskussion hochaktuelle Themen. Meist geht es dabei um erwachsene,...  Read More >>

Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles...  Read More >>

"Elmwood Cemetery was founded in August 1852 by 50 prominent Memphians who resolved to create a new burial site...  Read More >>

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What causes people to take their lives? How can suicides be prevented? Looking beyond common myths and misconceptions,...  Read More >>

This meticulous volume recognizes the need to translate what has been learned primarily in tissue culture dishes...  Read More >>

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