SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
What Death Means Now
Thinking Critically about Dying and Grieving
Bringing 25 years of research and teaching in the sociology of death and dying to this important book, Tony Walter engages critically with key questions around this universal fact.
The Child–Parent Caregiving Relationship in Later Life
Psychosocial Experiences
This book highlights how the social experience of caring for, and relating to, a parent in later life has a significant impact on the adult child.
Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human
This book provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond traditional perspectives of a nature/culture binary. Bringing together a range of international scholars, it sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures.
Dissection Photography
Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity
Featuring previously unseen images, stories and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death and the gross anatomy lab through the tradition of dissection photography, examining its historical aspects from both photographic and medical perspectives.
The Trouble with Death
Making Sense of Mortality in the Anthropocene
This book combines Western history of death with sociology and philosophy to explore our approach to death. It examines sociological debates, the cultural construction of death and uses existential phenomenology and Freudian psychology to examine the search for meaning in our finite lives.