Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Adult Mortality in Developed Countries

Adult Mortality in Developed Countries
Author: Alan D. Lopez , Graziella Caselli ISBN: 9780198233299 Format: Hardback	$150.00
This volume looks at the causes of adult mortality, focusing particularly on socio-economic factors. It goes beyond... Read More >>

Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior

Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive...
Author: Edwin Shneidman ISBN: 9780876681510 Format: Paperback	$92.95
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Bereavement and Support: Healing in a Group Environment

Bereavement and Support: Healing in a Group Environment...
Author: Marylou Hughes ISBN: 9781560323716 Format: Paperback	$103.00
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Dying: Facing the Facts

Dying: Facing the Facts
Author: Hannelore Wass , Robert A. Neimeyer ISBN: 9781560322863 Format: Paperback	$110.00
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Children Mourning, Mourning Children

Children Mourning, Mourning Children
Author: Kenneth J. Doka , Jack D. Gordon (President, Hospice Foundation of America, USA) ISBN: 9781560324478 Format: Paperback	$79.99
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Bereavement and Support: Healing in a Group Environment

Bereavement and Support: Healing in a Group Environment...
Author: Marylou Hughes ISBN: 9781560323709 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Dying: Facing the Facts

Dying: Facing the Facts
Author: Hannelore Wass , Robert A. Neimeyer ISBN: 9781560322856 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Lost Lullaby

Lost Lullaby
Author: Deborah Golden Alecson , Kathleen Nolan ISBN: 9780520088702 Format: Hardback	$132.00
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Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek Tragedy

Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide...
Author: E.P. Garrison ISBN: 9789004102415 Format: Leather / fine binding	$422.40
This monograph explicates suicide in Greek tragedy in light of the fifth-century ethical climate and social milieu.... Read More >>

Fear of the Unknown: Enlightened Aid-in-Dying

Fear of the Unknown: Enlightened Aid-in-Dying
Author: Arthur S. Berger , Joyce Berger ISBN: 9780275946838 Format: Hardback	$110.00
How do doctors and nurses communicate with frightened patients who are dying, address the needs and concerns of... Read More >>

Between Poverty and the Pyre: Moments in the History of Widowhood

Between Poverty and the Pyre: Moments in the History...
Author: Jan Bremmer , Lourens Van Den Bosch ISBN: 9780415083706 Format: Hardback	$263.00
A collection of essays on widows, ranging from Jesus' interest in widows to Hindu wives following their husbands... Read More >>

Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm

Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm...
Author: Gavin J Fairbairn , Gavin Fairbairn ISBN: 9780415106061 Format: Paperback	$94.99
Fairbairn takes a look at suicidal self-harm and reaches many conclusions about the current language and ethics... Read More >>

Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm

Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm...
Author: Gavin J Fairbairn , Gavin Fairbairn ISBN: 9780415106054 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Fairbairn takes a look at suicidal self-harm and reaches many conclusions about the current language and ethics... Read More >>

Suicide in America

Suicide in America
Author: Herbert Hendin ISBN: 9780393036886 Format: Hardback	$60.72
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Planning and Managing Death Issues in the Schools: A Handbook

Planning and Managing Death Issues in the Schools: A...
Author: William A. Berkan , Robert L. Deaton ISBN: 9780313295256 Format: Hardback	$100.00
By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral... Read More >>

On the Way to Death: Essays Toward a Comic Vision

On the Way to Death: Essays Toward a Comic Vision
Author: A. Roy Eckardt ISBN: 9781560002345 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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Reading Greek Death

Reading Greek Death
Author: Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood ISBN: 9780198149767 Format: Hardback	$170.00
This book is a fascinating in-depth study of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece.... Read More >>

They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary

They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary...
Author: Paula Rabinowitz ISBN: 9781859840252 Format: Paperback	$32.99
This text examines documentary in print, photography and film from the 1930s to the 1990s, using the lens of feminist... Read More >>

Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas

Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas...
Author: Catherine Russell ISBN: 9780816624867 Format: Paperback	$46.95
In these analyses of 20th century cinema , Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which... Read More >>

Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan

Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan...
Author: Ellie Ragland ISBN: 9780415907224 Format: Paperback	$90.99
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The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Manchester Conference, 16th-20th December 1992

The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings...
Author: Stuart Campbell , Anthony Green ISBN: 9780946897933 Format: Paperback	$211.20
The conference in Manchester in 1992 was organised to raise the profile of the study of mortuary remains in the... Read More >>

The Revival of Death

The Revival of Death
Author: Tony Walter (University of Bath, UK) ISBN: 9780415118545 Format: Paperback	$105.00
The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book... Read More >>

The Revival of Death

The Revival of Death
Author: Tony Walter (University of Bath, UK) ISBN: 9780415086653 Format: Hardback	$315.00
The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book... Read More >>

Medical Risks: 1991 Compend of Mortality and Morbidity

Medical Risks: 1991 Compend of Mortality and Morbidity...
Author: Richard B. Singer , Michael W. Kita ISBN: 9780275945534 Format: Hardback	$110.00
This book is a collection of mortality abstracts based on recent follow-up studies on the results of health disorders... Read More >>

Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide

Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide...
Author: Kathleen M. Heide ISBN: 9780803970601 Format: Paperback	$233.00
A tragic portrait of adolescents who kill their parents is revealed in this volume: these young people almost always... Read More >>

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