Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

The Living and the Dead: An Essay on the Tendential Continuities of Life and Death

The Living and the Dead: An Essay on the Tendential...

Author: Toby Austin Locke
ISBN: 9781525234538
Format: Paperback
$56.90

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How to Present Negative Medical News in a Positive Light: A Prescription for Health Care Providers

How to Present Negative Medical News in a Positive Light:...

Author: Michael Cavallaro
ISBN: 9781601385857
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In a 2009 Gallup poll, 30 percent of Americans surveyed believed that the national health care industry offers less-than-good...  Read More >>

How to Present Negative Medical News in a Positive Light: A Prescription for Health Care Providers

How to Present Negative Medical News in a Positive Light:...

Author: Michael Cavallaro
ISBN: 9781620233429
Format: Hardback
$92.27

In a 2009 Gallup poll, 30 percent of Americans surveyed believed that the national health care industry offers less-than-good...  Read More >>

Afterlife: The Evidence of Near Death Experience

Afterlife: The Evidence of Near Death Experience

Author: John Spooner
ISBN: 9781925043310
Format: Paperback
$29.95

What do near death experiences tell us about life after death? Rev John Spooner believes in Heaven and the afterlife,...  Read More >>

The Gender of Suicide: Knowledge Production, Theory and Suicidology

The Gender of Suicide: Knowledge Production, Theory...

Author: Katrina Jaworski
ISBN: 9781138279094
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways...  Read More >>

Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines

Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines...

Author: Chang-Won Park ,  Douglas J. Davies
ISBN: 9781138279247
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how different...  Read More >>

Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture

Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed...

Author: Allison Levy
ISBN: 9781138275904
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Recognizes a socio-cultural anxiety - the fear not merely of death but also of being forgotten - and identifies...  Read More >>

Life Cannot Live Without Death & Death Cannot Live Without Life

Life Cannot Live Without Death & Death Cannot Live Without...

Author: Ayin M Adams
ISBN: 9780990613992
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A book of spiritual poetry on the passing of death into life and the continuity of life after death.  Read More >>

Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead

Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts,...

Author: Mark Pizzato ,  Lisa K. Perdigao
ISBN: 9781138262225
Format: Paperback
$112.00

How do twentieth and twenty-first century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory...  Read More >>

The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis

The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis...

Author: John Quigley
ISBN: 9781138264519
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760: Deadly Plots

Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760:...

Author: Kirsten T. Saxton
ISBN: 9781138259911
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Presents insights into ways in which categories of criminality, gender, and fiction intersected in the long eighteenth...  Read More >>

Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications

Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives...

Author: Jon Yorke
ISBN: 9781138260047
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal...  Read More >>

The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body: Transformation and Transgression

The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body:...

Author: Stephen W. Smith ,  Ronan Deazley
ISBN: 9781138260320
Format: Paperback
$110.00

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture. This comprehensive...  Read More >>

Der Tod von eigener Hand: Studien zum Suizid im Alten Testament, Alten Ägypten und Alten Orient

Der Tod von eigener Hand: Studien zum Suizid im Alten...

Author: Jan Dietrich
ISBN: 9783161540554
Format: Hardback
$493.68

Viele Fragen zur Selbsttötung und zum gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Selbsttötung werden aktuell in der Öffentlichkeit...  Read More >>

Flipping Point

Flipping Point

Author: Barry R Norman
ISBN: 9781634918831
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Defining Death: The Case for Choice

Defining Death: The Case for Choice

Author: Robert M. Veatch ,  Lainie F. Ross
ISBN: 9781626163553
Format: Paperback
$58.99

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone...  Read More >>

Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them

Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those...

Author: Sarah Brabant
ISBN: 9780415785037
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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Defining Death: The Case for Choice

Defining Death: The Case for Choice

Author: Robert M. Veatch ,  Lainie F. Ross
ISBN: 9781626163546
Format: Hardback
$176.00

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone...  Read More >>

Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La Vida No Vale Nada

Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La Vida No Vale...

Author: Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith ,  Celestino Fernandez
ISBN: 9780816532520
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration. The contributors consist of a multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

Letters to Mitch: The Healing Power of Grief, Love & Truth

Letters to Mitch: The Healing Power of Grief, Love &...

Author: Marshall Dunn
ISBN: 9780998080901
Format: Paperback
$34.29

""Letters to Mitch - The Healing Power of Grief, Love & Truth"" is the true story of how a young man uses his greatest...  Read More >>

Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk: The Construction and Maintenance of National Memory

Beyond Anitkabir: The Funerary Architecture of Atatürk:...

Author: Christopher S. Wilson
ISBN: 9781138274877
Format: Paperback
$118.00

There have been five different settings that have contained the dead body of Ataturk, organiser of the Turkish War...  Read More >>

Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient

Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient

Author: E Mark Stern
ISBN: 9781138984202
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An examination of the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health. This collection of essays addresses...  Read More >>

The Living and the Dead

The Living and the Dead

Author: Toby Austin Locke
ISBN: 9781910924327
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Women and the Material Culture of Death

Women and the Material Culture of Death

Author: Maureen Daly Goggin ,  Beth Fowkes Tobin
ISBN: 9781138269521
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Letting Go, Moving On

Letting Go, Moving On

Author: Nikki Simos
ISBN: 9780994572868
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Nikki Simos shares with us the highs and lows from her life from early suicidal thoughts, two accounts of rape and...  Read More >>

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