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Social Science : Death & Dying

Death & Dying eBooks

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Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism
By: Kraemer, David
Published by: Routledge

This is the first study of the death and mourning practices of the founders of Judaism - the Rabbis of late antiquity. The author outlines the rituals described in early texts and interprets them to uncover the beliefs which caused their foundation. more...

Price: $41.95


Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
By: Effros, Bonnie
Published by: University of California Press

Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. more...

Price: $15.95


The Modern Art of Dying
By: Lavi, Shai J.
Published by: Princeton University Press

How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom.Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Lavi illustrates these changes with compelling accounts of changes at the deathbed. He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed by religion through the medicalization of death with the physician presiding over the deathbed, to the legalization of physician-assisted suicide.Unlike previous books, which have focused on law and technique as explanations for the rise of euthanasia, this book asks why law and technique have come to play such a central role in the way we die. What is at stake in the modern way of dying is not human progress, but rather a fundamental change in the way we experience life in the face of death, Lavi argues. In attempting to gain control over death, he maintains, we may unintentionally have ceded control to policy makers and bio-scientific enterprises. more...

Price: $25.95


Morbid Curiosity
By: Petrucelli, Alan
Published by: Perigee

The strange, startling, disturbing, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world’s most notorious celebrity deaths. Death sells. Just about everyone slows down upon passing the scene of a car accident, wanting to look but ashamed of their grim fascination with another’s unfortunate end. And when a public figure bites the dust, the fascination increases tenfold. From historical figures like Attila the Hun and Sir Walter Raleigh to contemporary names like River Phoenix and Anna Nicole Smith, the deaths of the rich and famous provoke endless speculation and tabloid fodder. Anyone can recall where they were when Princess Diana died, even if they are unable to remember who was president at the time. Noted celebrity journalist Alan W. Petrucelli has covered some of the world’s most famous people— some right until their deaths. In Morbid Curiosity , he presents the most disturbing, unexpected, occasionally humorous, and often outright appalling details of the final exits of the rich and powerful. more...

Price: $13.95


Mourning Diana: Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief
By: Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (ed.); Kear, Adrian (ed.)
Published by: Routledge

The death of Diana Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecedented scale. Global media coverage of the events following Diana's death appeared to create an international 'community of mourning'. However, such scenes of 'mass grief' were shadowed by political resistances and social tensions. The mourning - and not mourning - of Diana seemed to cross and yet reconfirm social divisions, to shift and at the same time redraw political boundaries. more...

Price: $26.95


Narrative Mortality
By: Russell, Catherine
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s. Analyzing the structural importance of death in narrative endings, as well as the thematics of loss and redemption, Russell identifies mortality as a valuable critical tool for understanding the cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. Her work includes close textual readings of films by Fritz Lang, Wim Wenders, Oshima Nagisa, Jean-Luc Godard, and Robert Altman, among others. more...

Price: $72.00


Nearing Death Awareness
By: Sanders, Mary Anne
Published by: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

'In Nearing Death Awareness , Mary Anne Sanders has provided a well thought out anthology covering the different aspects of, and sometimes names given to, the concept of Nearing Death Awareness. This book should provide clear, concise information and comfort to those who read it.'. - Maggie Callanan, co-author of Final Gifts. Dying is a complex experience for the dying person and their family, friends, and carers, that involves all aspects of what it means to be human: physical, mental, and spiritual. The author describes different types of Nearing Death Awareness (NDA), including visions, dreams, and symbolic language, and offers practical guidance for family and carers of the dying about how to respond appropriately and supportively to NDA behavior. This sensitive and informative book will make fascinating reading not only for anyone who is likely to accompany a dying person, but for anyone with an interest in spirituality. more...

Price: $17.95


New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones
By: Veit, Richard F.; Nonestied, Mark
Published by: Rutgers University Press

In this sweeping tour of New Jersey’s burial sites from the seventeenth century through the dawn of the twenty-first, readers will discover how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. From the earliest memorials that were once used by Native Americans, to some of the elaborate structures of the present day, historians Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied use grave markers to tell an off-beat account of New Jersey’s history that is both fascinating and unique. In detailed descriptions, the authors explain what cemeteries and their gravemarkers say about different individuals and the communities in which they lived. Images that decorate seventeenth-century headstones, such as skulls, hourglasses, and crossed bones, speak to the brevity of life in the colonial world. Eighteenth-century cemeteries reflect the distinctive cultures that sprang up in the state at that time, ranging from the unadorned marble markers used by Quakers, to rich brown sandstone used by settlers in the central and northern regions of New Jersey. By the Victorian era, markers were transformed into elaborate monuments and mausoleums as New Jerseyans honored their dead relatives with a cavalcade of obelisks, pillars, ornate statuary, and sculpture. Today’s tombstones continue to mirror New Jersey society. A life-sized Mercedes Benz headstone in a Linden cemetery, for example, reflects the materialism of the new millennium. Also considered are modern-day novelties such as pet cemeteries and what they mean for modern culture. Having visited more than 900 state burial grounds, and interviewed dozens of owners of monument companies, this richly illustrated book is essential reading for history buffs and indeed anyone who has ever wandered inquisitively through their local cemeteries. more...

Price: $22.00


No Good Deed
By: Cohen, Lewis Mitchell
Published by: Harper Collins

Accomplished physician and researcher Dr. Lewis Cohen writes the untold story of two Massachusetts nurses, their struggles with end of life care, and how they were accused of murdering a patient. Captivating and powerful, No Good Deed explores what happens when decisions about end of life issues and the purpose of modern medicine move from the hospital to the courtroom to the church. more...

Price: $19.99


Nothing to Be Frightened Of
By: Barnes, Julian
Published by: Knopf Publishing Group

Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. more...

Price: $15.00


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