Sociology: death & dying books

During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences...  Read More >>

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An attempt to further efforts in trying to understand the social aspects of death-related topics, by moving beyond...  Read More >>

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This title includes advice on composing the ceremony, poetry and prose readings, music, coping with bereavement,...  Read More >>

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Attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. This book says that through the advancement...  Read More >>

As people in the West live longer, more and more must learn to cope with illness, ageing, and death. This study...  Read More >>

Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua...  Read More >>

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In many countries of the world the number of persons that commit or attempt suicide has risen considerably over...  Read More >>

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A study of the way in which death is socially organized in the city of Belfast. It analyzes the responses to 415...  Read More >>

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"" --EthicsAn examination of the moral and philosophical issues at work in an individual's confrontation of death,...  Read More >>

Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, Michael Kearl draws on a wide variety...  Read More >>

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From a ""decoding"" of ancient Balinese myths to the careful computation of mortality rates for the modern Philippines,...  Read More >>

Singular Paths, based extensively on interviews, breaks fresh ground by describing specifically the situations,...  Read More >>

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