Sociology: death & dying books

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Medically Assisted Dying: A Compassionate Alternative to Suicide - Revised Edition

Medically Assisted Dying: A Compassionate Alternative...

Author: Francis J Clauss
ISBN: 9781977212481
Format: Paperback
$30.92

Medically Assisted Dying: A Compassionate Alternative to Suicide is a manual for those who might be concerned with...  Read More >>

How Culture Shapes Suicidal Behavior

How Culture Shapes Suicidal Behavior

Author: David Lester, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781536150988
Format: Paperback
$219.91

This book explores the role of culture in explaining suicidal behaviour. Explanations based on the genes and physiology...  Read More >>

Mortician: Notebook

Mortician: Notebook

Author: Wild Pages Press
ISBN: 9781075846427
Format: Paperback
$18.45

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Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets

Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban...

Author: Thomas Abt
ISBN: 9781541645721
Format: Hardback
$79.20

A powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America that ""makes a compelling case that there is a path...  Read More >>

Killing For Profit: The Dark Side of Hospice

Killing For Profit: The Dark Side of Hospice

Author: Michelle Young Doers
ISBN: 9781074412814
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook: A Clinician's Guide to Assist Adult Clients

Suicide & Self-Injury Prevention Workbook: A Clinician's...

Author: Ester R a Leutenberg ,  John J Liptak
ISBN: 9781570253584
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Offering a proactive means for dealing with the many characteristics that may prompt people to experience self-injury...  Read More >>

Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets

Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban...

Author: Thomas Abt
ISBN: 9781549126291
Format: Audio
$92.40

From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban...  Read More >>

Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures

Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures

Author: Richard Kalish
ISBN: 9780415785785
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Love Loss Light: Illuminating the Path Through Grief

Love Loss Light: Illuminating the Path Through Grief...

Author: Karen Trench
ISBN: 9780578477763
Format: Paperback
$20.13

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Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails

Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails

Author: Christine Tartaro
ISBN: 9781498558723
Format: Hardback
$240.00

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Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death

Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical...

Author: Sallie Tisdale
ISBN: 9781760632717
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A straightforward and humorous narrative field guide for both the dying and those who love them, written by a palliative...  Read More >>

The Dying Body as a Lived Experience

The Dying Body as a Lived Experience

Author: Alan Blum (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367224042
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book tackles the problem of how anxiety over death throughout the course of a life – though often denied or...  Read More >>

Caring Relationships: The Dying and the Bereaved

Caring Relationships: The Dying and the Bereaved

Author: Richard Kalish
ISBN: 9780415785389
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Kinship Bereavement in Later Life: A Special Issue of ""Omega - Journal of Death and Dying""

Kinship Bereavement in Later Life: A Special Issue of...

Author: Brian de Vries
ISBN: 9780415786041
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Death and Ethnicity: A Psychocultural Study

Death and Ethnicity: A Psychocultural Study

Author: Richard Kalish ,  David K. Reynolds
ISBN: 9780415785808
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Emphasizes that death occurs to us as unique individuals living within particular sociocultural settings. This title...  Read More >>

Life after Losing a Child

Life after Losing a Child

Author: Pat Young ,  Joanna Romer
ISBN: 9781942891710
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Life after Losing a Child tells the poignant stories of a dozen individuals who have suffered the loss of a child....  Read More >>

The Pain of Suicide: A Phenomenological Approach To Understanding 'Why?'

The Pain of Suicide: A Phenomenological Approach To...

Author: Dr Jo-Ann Rowland
ISBN: 9781912850761
Format: Paperback
$38.79

This book looks at the struggles of a high-risk people group and presents interventions and postventions proffered...  Read More >>

Honor Killings: Socio-Legal Dimensions

Honor Killings: Socio-Legal Dimensions

Author: Aneeda Jan
ISBN: 9781680530766
Format: Hardback
$323.00

Examines an enduring problem prevailing on an international scale, gathering results from qualitative research including...  Read More >>

Senior Boomers

Senior Boomers

Author: Beverly A. Potter
ISBN: 9781579512095
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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Suicide by Cop: Committing Suicide by Provoking Police to Shoot You

Suicide by Cop: Committing Suicide by Provoking Police...

Author: Mark Lindsay ,  David Lester, PhD.
ISBN: 9780415785341
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Examines what we know about the phenomenon of suicide by cop and places this behavior in a broader context. This...  Read More >>

A Beacon of Light on Grief: Cracking the Code Using This ""How To"" Handbook Guide

A Beacon of Light on Grief: Cracking the Code Using...

Author: Thelma Manning Hall, PhD
ISBN: 9781948638579
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This handbook will empower you and show you how to plan for the funeral process. Helpful templates and information...  Read More >>

The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death

The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death

Author: Lyn H. Lofland (Professor Emerita, UC Davis) ,  John Troyer (Senior Lecturer, University of Bath)
ISBN: 9780262537346
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.  Read More >>

Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes: A Qualitative Analysis

Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes: A Qualitative Analysis...

Author: Prof Dariusz Galasinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
ISBN: 9781350109025
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Deaths by suicide are high: every 40 seconds, someone in the world chooses to end their life. Despite acknowledgement...  Read More >>

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