Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

A Midwife through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life

A Midwife through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing...
Author: Timothy E. Quill, MD (Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry) ISBN: 9780801869785 Format: Paperback	$70.99
Here are the stories of nine individuals and their very different endings, common only in each person's struggle... Read More >>

Reasons and the Fear of Death

Reasons and the Fear of Death
Author: R. E. Ewin ISBN: 9780742512764 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This books contends that fear of death lies at the basis of reasoning and shows why people must be co-operating... Read More >>

Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies

Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies
Author: J. William Worden (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, United States) ISBN: 9781572307469 Format: Paperback	$84.99
Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book... Read More >>

A Wiser Way of Dying

A Wiser Way of Dying
Author: John H. Moore ISBN: 9781902733029 Format: Paperback	$18.09
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After Suicide: A Ray Of Hope For Those Left Behind

After Suicide: A Ray Of Hope For Those Left Behind
Author: E. Betsy Ross ISBN: 9780738205960 Format: Paperback	$32.99
""An extraordinary book that is a must for all people who have suffered or those who wish to support and counsel... Read More >>

The Suicidal Patient: Clinical and Legal Standards of Care

The Suicidal Patient: Clinical and Legal Standards of...
Author: Bruce Bongar ISBN: 9781557987617 Format: Hardback	$105.47
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Social Aspects of Funerary Culture in the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Leiden University 6-7 June, 1996

Social Aspects of Funerary Culture in the Egyptian Old...
Author: H. Willems ISBN: 9789042910157 Format: Hardback	$266.64
Although Egyptian tombs and funerary texts have been intensively studied, attention has been focused on art historical... Read More >>

Evolution of the Danish Population from 1835 to 2000

Evolution of the Danish Population from 1835 to 2000...
Author: Kirill F Andreev ISBN: 9788778387165 Format: Hardback	$39.59
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Death, Memory and Material Culture

Death, Memory and Material Culture
Author: Elizabeth Hallam , Jenny Hockey ISBN: 9781859733790 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This book examines the meaning of material culture in relation to memory and death, from personal mementoes through... Read More >>

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of...
Author: Margaret M. Lock ISBN: 9780520228146 Format: Paperback	$55.95
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Death, Memory and Material Culture

Death, Memory and Material Culture
Author: Elizabeth Hallam , Jenny Hockey ISBN: 9781859733745 Format: Hardback	$290.27
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Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition

Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition
Author: Margaret Alexiou , Former Fellow at the Society of Fellows Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Harvard University) ISBN: 9781306160544 Format: Electronic book text	$121.41
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Living with Loss, Healing with Hope: A Jewish Perspective

Living with Loss, Healing with Hope: A Jewish Perspective...
Author: Earl A. Grollman ISBN: 9780807028131 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Occasionally quoting from sacred texts as well as Jewish writers and philosophers, this book illuminates Judaism's... Read More >>

One in Thirteen: The Silent Epidemic of Teen Suicide

One in Thirteen: The Silent Epidemic of Teen Suicide...
Author: Jessica Portner ISBN: 9781589040014 Format: Paperback	$34.32
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How Linda Died

How Linda Died
Author: Frank Davey ISBN: 9781281934802 Format: Electronic book text	$26.27
A husband's unflinching account of his wife's unravelling. <i>How Linda Died</i> is Frank Davey's powerful and painfully... Read More >>

Passed on

Passed on
Author: Professor Karla F C Holloway ISBN: 9781283064712 Format: Electronic book text	$86.99
A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life. Read More >>

Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650

Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650...
Author: Clodagh Tait, Dr ISBN: 9781280220500 Format: Electronic book text	$374.88
This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. It deals with the process of dying,... Read More >>

Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure

Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
Author: Peter Stark ISBN: 9781299059191 Format: Electronic book text	$126.72
Sudden, extreme deaths have always fascinated us-- and now more than ever as athletes and travelers rise to the... Read More >>

Delicate Kingdom of Heaven

Delicate Kingdom of Heaven
Author: James Garrett ISBN: 9780595208173 Format: Paperback	$31.55
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Wind River Winter

Wind River Winter
Author: Virginia Stem Owens ISBN: 9781573830904 Format: Paperback	$21.95
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One Foot in the Grave: The Strange But True Adventures of a Cemetery Sexton

One Foot in the Grave: The Strange But True Adventures...
Author: Chad Daybell ISBN: 9781555175566 Format: Paperback	$28.91
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Tombstones I Have Known

Tombstones I Have Known
Author: Lamar Weaver , Charaman M Campbell ISBN: 9780595203987 Format: Paperback	$52.67
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Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death

Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
Author: F. W. H. Myers ISBN: 9781571742384 Format: Paperback	$86.99
The culmination of more than 20 years of research into the survival of consciousness after death. The author's fascination... Read More >>

The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939

The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the...
Author: Mark Connelly ISBN: 9780861932535 Format: Hardback	$237.60
This case study of a part of London seeks to show how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms... Read More >>

Art of Suicide

Art of Suicide
Author: Ron M. Brown ISBN: 9781861891051 Format: Hardback	$79.07
A history of the representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the twentieth century.... Read More >>

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