Sociology: death & dying books

""Prof. E. H. Crane's manual of instructions to undertakers: With full and complete instructions in the best methods...  Read More >>

Explore the fascinating world of spiritualism and funeral rites in ""Dealings With The Dead, Volume II,"" penned...  Read More >>

Explore the fascinating intersection of life, death, and the unseen world in ""Dealings with the Dead, Volume I...  Read More >>

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Explore the intersection of folklore, medicine, and social science in Roswell Park's ""The Evil Eye, Thanatology,...  Read More >>

Working with Bereaved Parents is a thoughtful guide for frontline practitioners in mental health and medicine who...  Read More >>

In stories that take us into the worlds of hitmen, insurance frauds and modern-day slaves, Jenny Kleeman explores...  Read More >>

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Grief is a language many are forced to learn. Yet, the spaces many turn to for solace often fail to make room for...  Read More >>

'In My Time of Dying' is a detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region...  Read More >>

""This book offers an intimate meditation on aging and dying among elderly exiled Tibetans living in Dharamsala,...  Read More >>

Grief is a language many are forced to learn. Yet, the spaces many turn to for solace often fail to make room for...  Read More >>

A meditation on the social political and philosophical questions of ageing A few years ago, Didier Eribon's mother...  Read More >>

Just two weeks after Larry Bograd's bar mitzvah, his physician father dies suddenly. On a quest to understand his...  Read More >>

A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars  Read More >>

This book explores the memorial and funerary artistic traditions of Southwest China during the Eastern Han dynasty...  Read More >>

""This book offers an intimate meditation on aging and dying among elderly exiled Tibetans living in Dharamsala,...  Read More >>

Im Urteil des Verfassungsgerichtes zum § 217 wurde das Recht auf ein selbstbestimmtes und zugleich menschenwürdiges...  Read More >>

Das Buch ""Jenseits des Abschieds - Die unendliche Reise der Seele"" erzählt von der Verbindung zwischen Diesseits...  Read More >>

A gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the cyclical, crooked path...  Read More >>

A gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the cyclical, crooked path...  Read More >>

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement....  Read More >>

A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025 (SO FAR) ""[Better] is both an act of defiant self-expression--an insistence on vulnerability...  Read More >>

Begonnen hat alles mit ein paar Sätzen im Winter 2019. Als Ergänzung zu einer Patientenverfügung, festgehalten auf...  Read More >>

""The Undertakers' Manual"" by Auguste Renouard offers a fascinating glimpse into the historical practices surrounding...  Read More >>