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    Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those experiences have a protracted course.

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Book of My Son Reuben

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    Book SynopsisI wish I had not had to write this book because then my lovely son Reuben would still be alive, says David Cohen. He was adorable, formidably intelligent, a loving son, a loving brother. He died far too young. He had the bad luck to have two grandparents who had addictive personalities. His efforts to resist the lure of drugs failed. And so did I.The Book of My Son Reuben is a personal account of how psychologist David Cohen coped and did not cope with the death of his son, Reuben. Offering a unique perspective on the experience of parental loss, it offers a personal and analytical exploration of sorrow and guilt, and of what research tells us about trauma and grief. Illustrated throughout with David Cohen's personal insight into how he continues to navigate his loss, this honest book provides a deeper understanding of loss for parents who have experienced it, as well as those who support them. The book remembers the many parents who have lost chTable of Contents1. To begin at his end. 2. More about Reuben. 3. Pleasure and panic. 4. The death of children in antiquity and the Middle Ages. 5. The shock of death. 6. Reuben as a writer. 7. What children know about death: saying goodbye and spiritualism. 8. School killings. 9. Poverty, class and social work. 10. The physical consequences of bereavement. 11. Psychological research. 12. Social media. 13. Mourning and marriages. 14. How brothers and sisters react. 15. How fathers react to a child’s death. 16. What can help? 17. Reuben – half a life. Appendix: Extract from Theo's Ruins by Reuben Cohen. References

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Who Lives Who Dies Who Decides

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    Book SynopsisWho Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? looks at several of the most contentious issues in many societies. The book asks, whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time, and who makes those decisions? This book explores the fundamentally sociological processes which underlie the quest for morality and justice in human societies. The author sheds light on the social movements and social processes at the root of these seemingly personal moral questions. The third edition contains a new chapter on torture entitled, Taking Life and Inflicting Suffering. Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSDetailed ContentsPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 A Single Question PART I: A Moral System Evolves Chapter 2 An Exclusionary Movement is Born Chapter 3 Legal Reform to Eliminate Defectives Chapter 4 Redrawing the Boundaries of Protected Life Chapter 5 Crystallizing Events and Ethical PrinciplesPART II: The Early Moments and Months of Life Chapter 6 A Bolt from the Blue: Abortion is LegalizedChapter 7 Man’s Law or God’s WillChapter 8 Inches from LifeChapter 9 Should the Baby Live? PART III: The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering Chapter 10 Limits to Tolerable SufferingChapter 11 Alleviating Suffering and Protecting LifeChapter 12 God, Duty, and Life Worth Living Chapter 13 Assisted DyingPART IV: Taking Life and Inflicting SufferingChapter 14 Removing the Protective Boundaries of LifeChapter 15 A Campaign to Stop the ExecutionsChapter 16 The Pendulum Swings, the Debate ContinuesChapter 17 Justifying TortureChapter 18 Lessons LearnedIndex

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise of ThanaCapitalism and Tourism

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    Book SynopsisWe live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commodified in newspapers, the media, entertainment and in our cultural consumption. This book explores the notion of an emergent class of death-seekers who consume the spectacle of the disaster, exploring spaces of mass death and suffering. Sites that are obliterated by disasters or tragic events are recycled and visually consumed by an international audience, creating a death-seekers economy. The quest for the suffering of others allows for a much deeper reinterpretation of life, and has captivated the attention of many tourists, visiting sites such as concentration camps, disasters zones, abandoned prisons, and areas hit by terrorism. This book explores the notion of the death-seekers economy, drawing on the premise that the society of risk as imagined by postmodern sociology sets the pace to a new society: thana-capitalism. TTrade Review"Dr. Maximiliano Korstanje, an eminent tourism authority, demonstrates his intellectual talent in his new book on dark tourism. The book takes the reader through not only the history of dark tourism, or as it is technically known, Thana-Tourism, but also introduces in this ground-breaking work the concept of Thana-capitalism as an important contribution not only to tourism literature but also to the fields of economics and social-philosophy" Dr. Peter Tarlow, Texas A&M University, USA"In this study, Korstanje skilfully elaborates on the contemporary mutations of capitalism. He explains how mass suffering is produced and consumed today, pointing out that both ends of production and consumption are industrially crafted on the basis spectatorial indifference and on mergers of tropes and practices of death and life. The book makes a thoughtful contribution to critical sociological theory" Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK"This book makes the compelling argument that we accept death and suffering as forms of entertainment, rather than seek their prevention, because we have become infatuated by our ownsurvival.Korstanje develops this one argument through an array of different theories, scattered all over the book, ranging temporally from the birth of Christianity to post-modernity. Quite impressively, it seems like all the big names within philosophy and social theory are added to the mix: Baudrillard, Giddens, Žižek, Foucault, Marx and Beck, to name a few." Solène Prince, European Research Institute (ETOUR), Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden, Annals of Leisure Research, 2017"Life is a transient escape from the boundless landscape of death. To make life meaningful, it needs to be anchored in the framework of death. Maximiliano Korstanje introduces some path-breakingingly fresh perspectives into the debates on Thana capitalism and thana-tourism. Thana tourism creates an economy around those who are motivated by the need to consume death related experiences. Thana-tourists undergo liminal transitions that make them see death as a living experience. It is sickening but also therapeutic, depending on how the experiences are structured and lived. Maximiliano has knit together a comprehensive treatise on this important transdisciplinary field and I believe it will be a valuable resource for scholars studying this interesting phenomenon." Babu P. George, Fort Hays State University, USA"Professor Korstanje artfully weaves our fascination with entertainment and fear about death and the loss of self with historical trends in capitalism to market actual and virtual visitations to sites and presentations of death and suffering. It is vicarious, it is real, it is our condition!" David L. Altheide, Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, USA "Dark tourism has captured the imagine of tourism scholars over the past decade. This book by Maximiliano Korstanje not only reviews the literature in this field, but challenges existing conceptualizations of dark tourism. From a broad perspective, Korstanje looks at dark tourism through the lenses of capitalism, post-industrialism, religious ideology, and biopolitics to examine the roots of dark tourism, the fascination all cultures have with life and death, and the appropriation of death by modern economics and politics in the development of thana-capitalism (i.e., the commercialization death) through making death the Other. This book is a must read for anyone interested in dark tourism studies." Dr. Daniel Olsen, Department of Geography, Brigham Young University, USA"Informed by perspectives in sociology, behavior studies, and cultural studies, this book explores the motivations of the "death-seekers," tourists who seek out disaster and tragedy. Timely focus is given to those visitors who take selfies at sites of disaster. This book also explores the economic implications of tragedy-consuming tourists and the associated rise in "thana-capitalism": literally, the business of death." Rebecca Price, MLIS, MEd, Adjunct Research and Instruction Librarian, Duquesne University Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh (Book Review in RUSA, Vol 57, No 2, 2017: https://www.journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/6525/8677)"Maximiliano Korstanje’s The Rise of Thana-Capitalism and Tourism is a deeply thoughtful and provocative work which explores the apparent rise of the obsession with death in today’s society. Marrying philosophical and theological debates with economic theory, Korstanje paints a critical view of the world today, a world in which everyone fights for survival in a social Darwinist (thana-) capitalist system constructed to suppress them. The result of this is a constant quest for survival and ergo, an obsession with death." Jack Shepherd, European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR), Mid Sweden University, O€stersund, SwedenTable of ContentsPreface: The Cult to IndividualismIntroductionChapter 1: New Trends in Leisure PracticesChapter 2: Capitalism and Human SufferingChapter 3: Consuming DisastersChapter 4. Thana-CapitalismChapter 5: Understanding the Origin of EvilnessChapter 6: From the Enigma of Christ Toward Noah’s ArkChapter 7: The Supremacy of Anglo-Race: Individualism Above AllConclusionBibliography Index

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment

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    Book SynopsisCapital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology. Over the last decade or so, the United States has experienced a significant decline in the number of death sentences and executions. Since 2007, eight states have abolished capital punishment, bringing the total number of states without the death penalty to 19, plus the District of Columbia, and more are likely to follow suit in the near future (Nebraska reinstated its death penalty in 2016). Worldwide, 70 percent of countries have abolished capital punishment in law or in practice. The current trend suggests the eventual demise of capital punishment in all but a few recalcitrant states and countries. Within this context, a fresh look at capital punishment in the United States and worldwide is warranted.The Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment comprehensively examines the topic of capital punishment from a wide variety of perspTrade ReviewThe broad range of important themes and topics covered, all in one text, will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals. The editors have done excellent work in identifying a fairly wide readership and outlining a text that will appeal to that readership…In addition to the book being well-structured and including a range of important themes and issues around capital punishment, the chapters are authored by well-respected scholars. The collection of authors is impressive, and the book is sure to reflect current research and scholarship. – DJ Williams, Idaho State UniversityThe contents of this compendium demonstrate that the "withering away" of the death penalty is a real phenomenon related to, among other things, racial bias, high costs, super-regulation, the failure of juror decision-making, and wrongful conviction errors. The volume also focuses on the hopeful Marshall hypothesis that an educated public is more likely to accept the death penalty's failures. – Leona D. Jochnowitz, in Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 5 (2019)Table of ContentsPART 1: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: HISTORY, OPINION, AND CULTUREA. History1. The American Death Penalty: A Short (But Long) HistoryJohn Bessler, University of Baltimore School of Law 2. Capital Punishment and LynchingMargaret Vandiver, University of MemphisB. Opinion3. Public Opinion About the Death PenaltyJames D. Unnever, University of South Florida, Sarasota, Manatee; Leah Butler, University of Cincinnati; Francis Cullen, University of Cincinnati; and Angela Thielo, University of Louisville4. The Marshall HypothesesJohn Cochran, University of South FloridaC. Culture5. Media and Capital PunishmentMatthew Robinson, Appalachian State University 6. Popular Media and the Death Penalty: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Death Penalty in FilmMaya Pagni Barak, University of Michigan, Dearborn7. Why We Need the Death PenaltyAndrew Fulkerson, Southeastern Missouri State UniversityPART 2: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: RATIONALES AND RELIGIOUS VIEWSA. Rationales8. RetributionGeorge Kain, Western Connecticut State University, and Dale Recinella, St. Mary Mother of Mercy9. General Deterrence and BrutalizationGennaro Vito, University of Louisville, and Anthony Vito, University of West Georgia10. Incapacitation and Life without ParoleJon Sorensen, Texas A&M University, Prairie View, and Thomas Reidy, ABPPB. Religious Views11. Christianity and the Death PenaltyTobias Winright, St. Louis University12. Judaism and the Death PenaltyEdna Erez, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Kathy Laster, Victoria University13. Death Penalty in Sharia LawSanaz Alasti, Lamar University, and Eric Bronson, Lamar UniversityPART 3: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES14. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Death PenaltyKatherine Bennett, Armstrong State University, and H. Chris Tecklenberg, Armstrong State University15. Capital Punishment and Aggravating and Mitigating CircumstancesCarol Steiker, Harvard Law School, and Jordan Steiker, University of Texas Law School16. Capital Offenders’ Intellectual Disability and "Insanity": Excluding and Delaying the Death Penalty Peggy Tobolowsky, University of North Texas PART 4: THE DEATH PENALTY’S ADMINISTRATION17. The Financial Costs of the Death Penalty: Examining the EvidenceGordon Waldo, Florida State University18. Prosecutors and Capital PunishmentStacy Parker, Muskingum University19. Counsel for the Despised and Condemned: Capital Defense AttorneysJeffrey Kirchmeier, City University of New York School of Law 20. The Capital Jury and Sentencing: Neither Guided Nor IndividualizedWanda Foglia, Rowan University, and Marla Sandys, Indiana University Bloomington21. The Penalty Phase of the Capital Murder Trial: A Social-Psychological AnalysisMark Costanzo, Claremont McKenna College, and Zoey Costanzo, Cornell University 22. The Appellate Process in Capital CasesVanessa Woodward Griffin, University of West Georgia, and O. Hayden Griffin III, University of Alabama, Birmingham 23. Clemency: Failsafe or Fantasy? Cathleen Burnett, University of Missouri, Kansas City 24. Execution Methods in a NutshellDeborah Denno, Fordham University25. California’s Chaotic Death PenaltyStacy Mallicoat, California State University, Fullerton; Brenda L. Vogel, California State University, Long Beach; and David Crawford, Death Penalty Focus26. Reflections on the Abattoir - TexasDennis Longmire, Sam Houston State University, and Alex Updegrove, Sam Houston State University27. The Federal Death PenaltyStephanie Mizrahi, California State University, Sacramento 28. The Death Penalty and the United States Armed ForcesCatherine Grosso, Michigan State University PART 5: THE DEATH PENALTY’S CONSEQUENCES29. The Topography of Capital Punishment: Geographic Variations in Seeking, Achieving, and Carrying Out the Death PenaltyAdam Trahan, University of North Texas; Kaleigh B. Laird, University of North Texas; and Douglas N. Evans, Mercy College30. Age, Class, and Sex Disparities in Capital PunishmentEtta Morgan, Jackson State University31. Race and the Death PenaltyKristie Blevins, Eastern Kentucky University, and Kevin Minor, Eastern Kentucky University32. Wrongful Capital ConvictionsTalia Roitberg Harmon, Niagara University, and Diana Falco, Niagara University33. Life and Work on Death RowRobert Johnson, American University34. Capital Punishment and Victims’ and Offenders’ FamiliesLynn Pazzani, University of West Georgia35. Capital Punishment’s Co-VictimsKyle Burgason, Iowa State University36. Exoneration: Life After Death RowScott Vollum, University of Minnesota, Duluth37. The Demise of the Death Penalty with Special Focus on the United StatesRobert M. Bohm, University of Central Florida

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Mummies Cannibals and Vampires

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    Book SynopsisMummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fTrade ReviewPraise of this edition: "Richard Sugg’s excellent book opens up a lost world of magic and medicine. This rich and authoritative account of beliefs about the medical efficacy of dead bodies is a fascinating, if gruesome, eye-opener."John Henry, University of Edinburgh, UK"Richard Sugg has written a thorough and engaging examination of pre-modern corpse medicine, paying special attention to literary and cultural history. The new edition with its expanded online content makes this book equally appealing to advanced scholars and students of history, medicine, and literature. It is an excellent edition for graduate and undergraduate classroom use."Miriam Jacobson, University of Georgia, USA"Richard Sugg’s book Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires is valuable to both survey student and specialist alike. The book’s breadth, from Renaissance to Victorian society, is impressive but it is the work’s macabre details which rivets readers to recorded medical uses of the human body."Charles Levine, Mesa Community College, USAPraise of the previous edition: 'This book is full of rich detail, making you both recoil and yet read on, fascinated by our ancestors’ imaginative ways to try and heal the sick. ' – Cotswold History Blog"I do not write this lightly - Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians is one of the most eye-opening and phenomenal books I have ever read. It is incredibly well researched, well written and states the case of medicinal cannibalism throughout the ages with great detail and reference. There is no other book like it and I feel so fortunate to have it upon my shelf...It would be a fantastic book to accompany a college class of the same subject." - Amazon.com Customer Review, 5 Stars"Sugg's book offers itself as a 'history' of corpse medicine. Though it is the work of a well-known literary scholar, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires invokes imaginative writing only to augment the evidence it draws from medical and scientific texts... Sugg's interest in corpse medicine reaches well beyond mumia to inspect all those strange concoctions of human tissue and waste favoured by early modern pharmacology"– Michael Neill, London Review of Books.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Middle Ages to the Civil War Chapter Two: The Civil War to the Eighteenth Century Chapter Three: The Bloody Harvest: Sources of Human Body Parts Chapter Four: The Other Cannibals: Man-eaters of the New World Chapter Five: Dirty History, Filthy Medicine Chapter Six: Eating the Soul Chapter Seven: Opposition and Ambivalence: pre-Eighteenth Century Chapter Eight: The Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Afterlives

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Death

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    Book SynopsisWhat is death and why does it matter to us? How should the knowledge of our finitude affect the living of our lives and what are the virtues suitable to mortal beings? Does death destroy the meaningfulness of lives, or would lives that never ended be eternally and absurdly tedious? Should we reconcile ourselves to the fact of our forthcoming death, or refuse to "go gently into that good night"? Can death really be an evil if, after death, we no longer exist as subjects of goods or evils? How should we respond to the deaths of others and do we have any duties towards the dead? These, and many other, questions are addressed in Geoffrey Scarre's book, which draws upon a wide variety of philosophical and literary sources to offer an up-to-date and highly readable study of some major ethical and metaphysical riddles concerning death and dying.Trade Review"Throughout the book Scarre succeeds brilliantly in laying out many of the mind-blowing problems and paradoxes of death. He moves easily from the ancient Greeks to the theories of Feinberg, Nagel, Fischer, Freud and Jaspers, and he admirably sticks to the essential questions which are on the table. With great competence and skill, Scarre takes on the role of guide and teacher who breaks down difficult arguments and positions for his readers. And since death is such a complicated and tricky matter, this, in itself, is a feat worth celebrating." - Ethical Perspectives "A clearly-written introduction ... the book offers a comprehensive and thorough survey of this fascinating philosophical field." - Mortality "Lucid, informed, and engaging, Geoffrey Scarre's book is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of death. Scarre surveys the literature on the nature and significance of death and makes original contributions of his own." - Steven Luper, Trinity University, San AntonioTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. The nature of death 2. Existential perspectives 3. Long lives, short lives 4. Facing death 5. The evil of death 6. The interests of the dead 7. Dealing with the dead Notes Bibliography Index

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  • Cambridge University Press Childrens Understanding of Death From Biological to Religious Conceptions

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