Sociologi: död & döende

A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.When Pauline Chen began …

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact - a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare. It brought out the …

From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "e;homegoing"e; ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. …

GRIEF IS CRUEL The pain is like no other you have experienced.As a widow, do you feel lost, alone, angry, or disconnected? Are you questioning your new identity in life now? If …

Death is a subject of increasing interest in virtually all academic disciplines, yet there is surprisingly little theoretical work on the representation of death in literary …

Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 BC to Diana, Princess of Wales.. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and …

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, …

A child's suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an almost complete break with what's …

In February 1996, Jeff Romig's father died by suicide.Until that moment, there was no sign that his father had been contemplating suicide. Steve Romig was always so driven. …

Que ocurre con los cadaveres tras la violencia extrema? Como se transforman en presencia viva y persistente en las sociedades marcadas por el conflicto? Materias inestables. El …