Sociology: death & dying books

A handbook on how to approach the final years of life from the doctors of the Center to Improve Care for the Dying....  Read More >>

In this book, Jeffrey Trumbower examines how and why death came to be perceived as such a firm boundary of salvation....  Read More >>

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Through stories (including their own), interviews, and analysis of the most recent data available, Dr. Alvin Poussaint...  Read More >>

Wills from lower social status shed light on religious, social and cultural history.  Read More >>

This text describes how Asante in present-day Ghana shape and give meaning to their funeral celebrations.  Read More >>

In this work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in 18 high-income nations to show how...  Read More >>

Argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to - and even...  Read More >>

This is a reference source for death, dying and related concepts. It should prove of use to teachers, researchers,...  Read More >>

Argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to - and even...  Read More >>

This title presents the Buddhist approach to facing the facts of growing older and dying. Using a Buddhist text,...  Read More >>

Jeremy Tambling introduces the idea of 'the posthumous' as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past,...  Read More >>

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This book is a highly practical book that explains how best to help and support a child whose parent or carer has...  Read More >>

In June 2000 Peter Houghton, a counselor in palliative care, was weeks from death due to cardiomyopathy. Then he...  Read More >>

Psychologist Wogrin discusses the importance of communicating with the terminally ill both through talking and nonverbal...  Read More >>

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This book provides insight and instruction for bereaved readers and those who work with them.  Read More >>

This informative anthology provides an understanding of dying, death and bereavement to assist individuals in better...  Read More >>

This self-directed journal-based guide recognizes that grief is a process. Through well-written, practical information,...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary exploration of the visual presence of death in contemporary culture.  Read More >>

Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert Garland...  Read More >>

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This volume gathers together letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies and funeral orations, written by French...  Read More >>

Explores how the withdrawal of active medical treatment is managed in intensive care units, placing this in the...  Read More >>