Sociology: death & dying books

This new text provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of loss via exploration into three major types...  Read More >>

A detailed ethnographic study, The Dying Process draws on the voices of patients and highlights the bodily realities...  Read More >>

Drawing on literature, philosophy, and medicine, this title offers insight into how to deal with the rewards of...  Read More >>

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Demonstrates how people have tried to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures, informed by religious...  Read More >>

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Biblical information in dealing with the controversial topics of each issue.  Read More >>

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This authority in the field offers a rethinking of his pioneering work. Given today's extended life span, and given...  Read More >>

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Recent events such as the massacres in Dunblane and Arkansas, the deaths of children in terrorist attacks, civil...  Read More >>

Informacion esencial sobre estos temas de vibrante actualidad....  Read More >>

At least 5 million people die each year from injuries, and about half the deaths in the 10-24 age group are accountable...  Read More >>

Examines and expands upon issues of dying and the ways in which we shape and reshape our conceptions of death. This...  Read More >>

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The traditional view of suicide as profoundly unusual is challenged by the fact that suicide and attempted suicide...  Read More >>

Explores how family members attempt to come to terms with the death of an offspring or brother or sister. Drawing...  Read More >>

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