Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Experiencing Cancer: Quality of Life in Treatment

Experiencing Cancer: Quality of Life in Treatment

Author: Kirsten Costain Schou ,  Jenny Hewison
ISBN: 9780335198924
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This text takes a look at the experience of treatment for cancer by exploring the accounts of a group of cancer...  Read More >>

Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly

Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly

Author: Harold G Koenig (Duke Univ Medical Ctr, Durham, NC, USA) ,  Junietta B Mccall
ISBN: 9780789004987
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Through firsthand accounts and research, Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly focuses on the education,...  Read More >>

Die 'Opferrinne-Zeremonie': Bankettideologie Am Grab, Orientalisierung Und Formierung Einer Adelsgesellschaft in Athen

Die 'Opferrinne-Zeremonie': Bankettideologie Am Grab,...

Author: Erich Kistler
ISBN: 9783515073677
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Study of the development of the Athenian aristocracy by means of the analysis of archaic offering cups/channels...  Read More >>

Before Their Time

Before Their Time

Author: Mary Stimming ,  Maureen Stimming
ISBN: 9781566396554
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This work presents adult children survivors' (defined as eighteen or above at the time of the parents death) accounts...  Read More >>

The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss

The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of...

Author: John Archer
ISBN: 9780415178587
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Les Statuettes Funeraires de la Deuxieme Cachette A Deir El-Bahari

Les Statuettes Funeraires de la Deuxieme Cachette A...

Author: Liliane Aubert ,  J Bulte
ISBN: 9782951209206
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Etude approfondie des chaouabtis retrouves en 1891 dans la deuxieme cachette de Deir El Bahri ou reposaient 153...  Read More >>

How to Identify Suicidal People: A Six-Step Assessement System

How to Identify Suicidal People: A Six-Step Assessement...

Author: Thomas W. White
ISBN: 9780914783831
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Contemporary Perspectives on Rational Suicide

Contemporary Perspectives on Rational Suicide

Author: James L. Werth, Jr.
ISBN: 9780876309377
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and treatment foundations

Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and...

Author: Charles R. Figley
ISBN: 9780876309735
Format: Paperback
$94.99

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Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and treatment foundations

Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and...

Author: Charles R. Figley
ISBN: 9780876309728
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Contemporary Perspectives on Rational Suicide

Contemporary Perspectives on Rational Suicide

Author: James L. Werth, Jr.
ISBN: 9780876309360
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This text brings together spokespersons from several different disciplines who can present their arguments for or...  Read More >>

Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Loss and Bereavement

Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Loss and Bereavement

Author: Ruth Malkinson
ISBN: 9781887841306
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide

Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide...

Author: Rosine Jozef Perelberg (Training and Supervising Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society, UK) ,  Leonard Shengold
ISBN: 9780415199322
Format: Paperback
$83.99

A collection of case studies from analysts who have treated patients who have committed serious acts of violence...  Read More >>

Dying and Creating

Dying and Creating

Author: Rosemary Gordon, LLB
ISBN: 9781283125413
Format: Electronic book text
$237.47

Dying and creating or, could we put it the other way round, creating and dying? Rosemary Gordon has chosen the first,...  Read More >>

Cancer Stories: On Life and Suffering

Cancer Stories: On Life and Suffering

Author: David M Gregory (University of Manitoba) ,  Cynthia K Russell
ISBN: 9781282864306
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

In Cancer Stories five people share their journeys, their stories, and the suffering they faced before their deaths....  Read More >>

Aftermath: Remembering the Great War in Wales

Aftermath: Remembering the Great War in Wales

Author: Angela Gaffney
ISBN: 9780708314944
Format: Hardback
$39.99

This text provides a comprehensive examination of the social and political significance of remembrance in Wales....  Read More >>

Coping With Loss

Coping With Loss

Author: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema ,  Judith Larson
ISBN: 9780805821390
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This book integrates groundbreaking new research, theory, and clinical insights to present a comprehensive picture...  Read More >>

Mum, it's Nothing Personal, but I Want to Die

Mum, it's Nothing Personal, but I Want to Die

Author: Janice Harvey
ISBN: 9780958550505
Format: Paperback
$21.95

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The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age, 2nd Edition

The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age,...

Author: Professor C.G. Prado
ISBN: 9780313305849
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related...  Read More >>

Death in Ancient Egypt

Death in Ancient Egypt

Author: Bridget McDermott
ISBN: 9780750939324
Format: Hardback
$51.75

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Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750

Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480-1750...

Author: Ralph Houlbrooke (Reader in History, Reader in History, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780198217619
Format: Hardback
$323.95

This book shows how the religious upheavals of the early modern period brought changes in responding to death, affecting...  Read More >>

The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age

The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age...

Author: Professor C.G. Prado
ISBN: 9780275961503
Format: Paperback
$62.00

The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense...  Read More >>

The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries

The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New...

Author: Carolee Inskeep
ISBN: 9780916489892
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Trying to find some peace in the City That Never Sleeps"""" has always been difficult-even for dead New Yorkers....  Read More >>

End-of-Life Decisions: A Psychosocial Perspective

End-of-Life Decisions: A Psychosocial Perspective

Author: Maurice D. Steinberg ,  Stuart J. Youngner, MD (University Hospitals of Cleveland)
ISBN: 9780880487566
Format: Hardback
$245.52

End-of-Life Decisions strikes a careful balance between the need for patient autonomy and the challenge to make...  Read More >>

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