Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Outside Time: My Friendship with Wilbur

Outside Time: My Friendship with Wilbur
Author: Stephen Rich Merriman ISBN: 9780981769813 Format: Paperback	$42.24
The narrative is written as both a paean to a special kind of friendship, and a discriminating inquiry into the... Read More >>

Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails

Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails
Author: Christine Tartaro , David Lester ISBN: 9780739124642 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Using recent prison and jail suicide data, Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails explores how the stress associated... Read More >>

Death and Bereavement Around the World: Reflective Essays: Volume 5

Death and Bereavement Around the World: Reflective Essays:...
Author: John Morgan , Stephen Palmer ISBN: 9780895032386 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Reflects on some major themes - death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches,... Read More >>

Final Moments: Nurses' Stories About Death and Dying

Final Moments: Nurses' Stories About Death and Dying...
Author: Deborah Witt Sherman ISBN: 9781427798237 Format: Paperback	$39.47
What was it like the first time a nurse witnessed death? How do nurses cope with death when it becomes almost routine?... Read More >>

Annihilation: The Sense and Significance of Death

Annihilation: The Sense and Significance of Death
Author: Christopher Belshaw ISBN: 9780773535534 Format: Paperback	$73.79
A suggestive and broad examination of the philosophical issues surrounding death. Read More >>

Annihilation: The Sense and Significance of Death

Annihilation: The Sense and Significance of Death
Author: Christopher Belshaw ISBN: 9780773535527 Format: Hardback	$250.80
A suggestive and broad examination of the philosophical issues surrounding death. Read More >>

Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer

Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning,...
Author: Lesley A. Sharp ISBN: 9780231138390 Format: Paperback	$44.95
Probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths,... Read More >>

Death and Anti-Death, Volume 6: Thirty Years After Kurt Gdel (1906-1978)

Death and Anti-Death, Volume 6: Thirty Years After Kurt...
Author: Charles Tandy, Ph.D. , Roger Penrose ISBN: 9781934297032 Format: Hardback	$105.47
Death and Anti-Death collects essays by professional philosophers and other professional scholars on issues related... Read More >>

Confronting Mortality with Art and Science: Scientific and Artistic Impressions on What the Certainty of Death Says about Life

Confronting Mortality with Art and Science: Scientific...
Author: Pollier-Green & Van De Velde , Ann Van De Velde ISBN: 9789054874430 Format: Spiral bound	$100.32
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Death, Society, and Human Experience: United States Edition

Death, Society, and Human Experience: United States...
Author: Robert J. Kastenbaum ISBN: 9780205610532 Format: Paperback	$293.04
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Death by Stupidity: The 1001 Most Ridiculous, Bizarre and Astonishingly Idiotic Ways People Have Kicked the Bucket

Death by Stupidity: The 1001 Most Ridiculous, Bizarre...
Author: David Southwell , Matt Adams ISBN: 9781569756935 Format: Paperback	$34.19
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Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 1: The Violent against Themselves

Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 1: The Violent against...
Author: Murray ISBN: 9780199553112 Format: Paperback	$126.95
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Green Oasis in Brooklyn: The Evergreens Cemetery 1849-2008

Green Oasis in Brooklyn: The Evergreens Cemetery 1849-2008...
Author: John Rousmaniere , Ken Druse ISBN: 9780978689940 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Noted historian John Rousmaniere traces the history of the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Beginning with the... Read More >>

Histories of Suicide: International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World

Histories of Suicide: International Perspectives on...
Author: John Weaver , David Wright ISBN: 9780802096326 Format: Paperback	$74.99
This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists,... Read More >>

The End-of-life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and Medical Considerations for a Peaceful, Dignified Death

The End-of-life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and Medical...
Author: Susan R. Dolan , Audrey R. Vizzard ISBN: 9781427798398 Format: Hardback	$60.59
Through stories & practical advice, 'The End-of-Life Advisor' provides guidance & psychological insight for individuals... Read More >>

Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England

Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial...
Author: Mary Elizabeth Hotz ISBN: 9780791476598 Format: Hardback	$184.80
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Living with Grief: Diversity and End of Life Care

Living with Grief: Diversity and End of Life Care
Author: Hfa ISBN: 9781893349100 Format: Paperback	$124.08
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Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement: An Anthology

Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement: An Anthology...
Author: Sarah Earle , Caroline Bartholomew ISBN: 9781847875129 Format: Paperback	$120.00
This book accompanies the Reader for the OU course Death and Dying (K260) and is not a buy-back, which means guaranteed... Read More >>

Death and Dying: A Reader

Death and Dying: A Reader
Author: Sarah Earle , Carol Komaromy ISBN: 9781847875105 Format: Paperback	$128.00
This book replaces the Dickenson: Death, Dying and Bereavement 2ED as the set text for the OU course Death and Dying... Read More >>

Modern Art of Dying

Modern Art of Dying
Author: Shai J Lavi ISBN: 9781282157217 Format: Electronic book text	$171.60
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia... Read More >>

Dialogue on Grief and Consolation.

Dialogue on Grief and Consolation.
Author: Terence O'Connell ISBN: 9781282505339 Format: Electronic book text	$95.04
Have you lost a loved one? The loss can be inestimable, the grief excruciating. What helped you? Did someone say... Read More >>

Final Acts

Final Acts
Author: Nan Bauer-Maglin , Prof Donna Perry ISBN: 9781280492464 Format: Electronic book text	$190.08
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Dying, Assisted Death and Mourning.

Dying, Assisted Death and Mourning.
Author: Asa Kasher ISBN: 9781282594395 Format: Electronic book text	$137.28
Dying and death are topics of deep humane concern for many people in a variety of circumstances and contexts. However,... Read More >>

Solution Focused Practice in End-Of-Life and Grief Counseling

Solution Focused Practice in End-Of-Life and Grief Counseling...
Author: Joel Simon ISBN: 9781282450264 Format: Undefined	$118.80
[T]his is a book about possibilities-not finalities...about all the different ways that people deal with loss and... Read More >>

In the Face of Death

In the Face of Death
Author: Danai Papadatou ISBN: 9781282266315 Format: Undefined	$396.00
Danai Papadatou [presents] an approach of Relational Care, care based on an understanding of relationships, that... Read More >>

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