Sociology: death and dying Books
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Suizid, Suizidalitat Und Trauer: Gewaltsamer Tod
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Trema Forlag The Distances Between Us
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£28.50
Trema Forlag I Narheten
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£33.25
The University of Chicago Press On the Bones of the Serpent Person Memory and
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America
Book SynopsisThousands of memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of communism, have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history.Trade Review"Memorial Mania is an important and much-needed book, one that complements the existing literature on memorials with richness and originality, and also forges new territory. Erika Doss's excellent and highly polemical critique of its resurgence furthers one of American studies' most noteworthy traditions." - Michelle Bogart, Stony Brook University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Memorial Mania
Book SynopsisIn the past few decades, thousands of memorials have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express - and claim - those issues in visibly public contexts.Trade Review"I believe Memorial Mania will appeal to a wide audience - both inside and outside academia - given the quality of the writing and the presentation of the material.... It is a sign of the quality of Erika Doss's work that I am left wanting more." (Anthropology Works) "What makes Erika Doss's book so valuable is that it reveals the range, complexity, and depth of emotion produced by memorial acts." (American Quarterly)"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable
Book SynopsisReveals a gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites, this title explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures.Trade Review"Kammen has a good sense of the details that make historical stories memorable. His occasional flashes of humor add a winsome, professionally geeky element to the telling." (Dallas Morning News) "The entertaining, if not macabre premise of Michael Kammen's new book is to explore how fluid final resting places may be.... As his drily witty book proves, fluctuating reputations and warring families have all played their part in ensuring that for the famous and infamous alike, there's no such thing as resting in peace." (Daily Telegraph) "This slender page-turner is a work of fact, a comprehensively researched work on a ghoulish and wonderfully weird subject: exhumation." (San Francisco Chronicle) "Kammen effectively captures the eternal dual fascination with greatness and with the dead, and the power of their conjunction in the burial of heroes." (Publishers Weekly)"
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Songs for Dead Parents Corpse Text and World in
Book SynopsisIn a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism explicitly disavowed. Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, Songs for Dead Parents shows how people view the dead as both material and immaterial, as effigies replace corpses, tombstones replace effigies, and texts eventually replace tombstones in a long process of disentangling the dead from the shared world of matter and memory. It is through these processes that people envision the cosmological underpinnings of the world and assess the social relations that make up their community. Thus, state interventions aimed at reforming death practices have been deeply co
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Songs for Dead Parents Corpse Text and World in
Book SynopsisIn a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism explicitly disavowed. Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, Songs for Dead Parents shows how people view the dead as both material and immaterial, as effigies replace corpses, tombstones replace effigies, and texts eventually replace tombstones in a long process of disentangling the dead from the shared world of matter and memory. It is through these processes that people envision the cosmological underpinnings of the world and assess the social relations that make up their community. Thus, state interventions aimed at reforming death practices have been deeply co
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Last Walk
Book SynopsisDrawing on the moving story of the last year of the life of her own treasured dog, Ody, the author presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical, and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals.Trade Review"Decisions about how to treat an animal toward the end of her or his life are among the most difficult we have to make, and it's our responsibility to do the best we can. Our companions trust that we will have their best interests in mind. In The Last Walk, Jessica Pierce considers all of the hard questions about sick and old animals. She seamlessly weaves in personal stories with scientific research to provide readers with an incredibly valuable guide-a must read-about when and how to end an animal's life in the most humane way possible. I learned a lot from reading this book, and I know others will as well." -Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals"
£23.00
Columbia University Press Living Through Loss
Book SynopsisLiving Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to old age. This second edition features new and expanded content on diversity and trauma, including discussions of gun violence, police brutality, suicide, and an added focus on systemic racism.Trade ReviewInvaluable. . . . It was written for social workers, but its insights, information, and practical application will be helpful for a range of professional workers who come into contact with people who are grieving a significant loss. * Journal of Social Work *This book is both a mine of information and provides an enormous amount of food for thought and reflection. Highly recommended. -- Roger Woodruff, director of palliative care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia * International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care News *Provides a comprehensive overview of grief theory, a review of losses experienced at different points in our lives, and evidence informed interventions. This timely text would provide an excellent introduction for practitioners working with bereaved people as well as be highly practical for a course textbook that students would be able to return to later once in practice. * Journal of Gerontological Social Work *This second edition of a splendid book explores the pervasiveness of loss in multiple forms (death and non-death). The authors examine loss in terms of a range of theoretical understandings and provide approaches to intervention that consider social, cultural, and environmental contexts and influences. This is a rich addition to the consideration of loss. -- Allan Cole, author of Good Mourning: Getting Through Your GriefAt a time when people are reeling from the many losses dealt by the pandemic, the second edition of this book could not be timelier. The life span approach taken and interventions provided for each life stage impart a wealth of critical information and guidance to current and future clinicians. -- Tracy A. Schroepfer, University of Wisconsin-MadisonLiving Through Loss is an important, timely, and compelling book that presents an evolved perspective of the universal experiences of loss and grief. This book is authentic, grounded, and written from the authors’ deep awareness and knowledge—leading the reader to a richer understanding of loss across the life course. -- Deborah Waldrop, University at BuffaloUniquely, the authors interweave professional and scholarly knowledge with personal experience. As a clinician and teacher, I found myself tallying up my own losses and acknowledging reverberations of old sorrows. The overall effect is a sense of being grounded in the midst of great complexity—a gift both to the scholar and the clinician. -- Wendy Lustbader, author of Counting on Kindness: The Dilemmas of DependencyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Theoretical Perspectives on Grief2. The Grief Process and Types of Grief3. Resilience and Meaning-Making4. Loss and Grief in Childhood5. Interventions for Grieving Children6. Loss and Grief in Adolescence7. Interventions for Grieving Adolescents8. Loss and Grief in Young Adulthood9. Interventions for Grieving Young Adults10. Loss and Grief in Middle Adulthood11. Interventions for Grieving Midlife Adults12. Loss and Grief in Old Age13. Interventions for Grieving Older Adults14. Professional Self-Awareness and Self-CareNotesReferencesIndex
£102.85
University of Illinois Press Death and Dying in the Working Class 18651920
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHerbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2009. "Through portraits of industrial accidents, political funerals, and burial rituals, this compelling reinterpretation of working-class culture and the making of labor solidarity highlights how bodies in their gendered, class, and ethnic valences matter--in death as well as life."--Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara"A tantalizing and well-researched glimpse into the rituals of death for workers whose lives held little value outside their own communities in industrializing America."--Annals of Iowa"Rosenow is to be congratulated on his mastery of diverse literatures and his rigorous argument. Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920 demonstrates that wageworker's rituals--and the industrial violence that engendered them--were foundational to the formation of working-class identities and organizations."--American Historical Review"In his thoughtfully conceived and clearly developed study, Michael K. Rosenow shows that in death as in life, American workers existed on anything but a level playing field."--The Journal of American History"For scholars seeking insight into the formation of class identity among the industrial workforce and an intellectually creative use of methodologies to examine the links between religion, ethnicity, and class, Rosenow's study provides an evocative study of social transformation as well as introducing a rich field for further research."--H-Net"This award-winning book (it won the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working Class History Association) helps us understand the complex ways the working class has responded to death on the job and expands our notions of American ways of caring for—and about—the dead."--Journal of Social History"Rosenow's book offers rich insight into how the working class of the early twentieth century approached death within their historical and situational context."--Working USA"Engaging, thoughtful, and very readable . . . It adds to our knowledge of how Americans responded to the changes brought by industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century."--Robert V. Wells, author of Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History "Rosenow usefully extends a now-rich literature on American memorial practices to the northern industrial working classes from the Civil War to World War I. . . . This pioneering study deserves wide attention."--Leon Fink, author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
£77.35
Indiana University Press The Big Move
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWe Americans prize independence, but for many elderly people, the price they pay for independence is loneliness and worthlessness. The Big Move is a fascinating attempt to marry personal experience with academic analysis to help us all reconceive of one option for later-life living. Moving to a continuing care retirement community need not be viewed as a withdrawal from life, but rather as a new platform to manage one's infirmities at the same time as one uses one's skills. * Huffington Post *This is a remarkable book about finding the right place to age. It uses a single true story, refracted through personal experience and multiple forms of expertise, to say as much as piles of data. You'll want to read it if you're looking for clear advice about the big move into continuing care, assisted living, even a nursing home. And it's appealing for anyone along the life course making "a big move." This book gives the perspective that is so often missing. It's a story not often told and too often dreaded. It tackles the broader social issue of how to age well and treat elders well on an irresistibly human scale. -- Sally Chivers, Professor of English Literature * Trent University *We have very few accounts of gerontologists who have grown old, and never before a memoir by a gerontologist who moved into a long-term care facility. This book is not only a first, but is a remarkable and riveting account of challenges all of us must contemplate. The author's own story is amplified by insights from other contributors to this volume, which altogether make it memorable and compelling. Highly recommended. -- Rick Moody, retired Vice President for Academic Affairs * AARP *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Home Places / Ruth Ray Karpen1. A Wife's Life, A Humanist's Journey, 2010-2012 / Anne Wyatt-Brown2. Coming to Care / Ruth Ray Karpen3. Lifelong Strengths Ground Later-Life Wisdom / Helen Q. KivnickAfterword: Making Oneself at Home / Margaret Morganroth GulletteEpilogue: Still on the Journey, 2012-2015 / Anne Wyatt-BrownAnnotated Bibliography Fiction / Margaret M. Gullette Mostly Non-Fiction / Helen Q. Kivnick, Ruth Ray Karpen, Anne Wyatt-Brown
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Indiana University Press Funeral Culture
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFuneral Culture offers a detailed ethnography of funerals in South African Swaziland, and scholars and students alike can breathe fresh air with this comparison of the neo-funeral cultural changes amongst the Southern African countries. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIVChapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the WitchChapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and CremationChapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento RadicalisConclusion The Afterlives of WorkAppendixI. siSwati-American English GlossaryII. List of AbbreviationsReferencesIndex
£22.79
University of Notre Dame Press The Evening of Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In this important and provocative book, the editors and authors make a compelling case for a much needed ‘ethics of aging’ that holistically addresses the unique character of the aging process and its role in defining a ‘good life.’” —Daniel B. Hinshaw, MD, author of Touch and the Healing of the World“Old age is presented as a question, asked from diverse perspectives. As readers view old age as a construction of medical policies, a philosophical puzzle, and a network of altruistic friends, they will be drawn in to ask what to call this period of life, how to respond to it, and ultimately how to live it.” —Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller"Insights from The Evening of Life are both comforting and illuminating in discussions regarding the present and future of aging and the end of life." —Hastings Center Report"According to St. Paul, we will receive a transformed body that will make up for the current one's deficiencies, which are likely to be many if we have been fortunate enough to reach the old age whose gifts and challenges these authors so intelligently and sensitively explore." —Studies in Christian EthicsThose with a professional or personal interest in improving care for aging and dying adults will certainly find helpful insights within this book’s chapters. -Journal of Applied Gerontology
£70.55
University of Notre Dame Press The Evening of Life The Challenges of Aging and
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In this important and provocative book, the editors and authors make a compelling case for a much needed ‘ethics of aging’ that holistically addresses the unique character of the aging process and its role in defining a ‘good life.’” —Daniel B. Hinshaw, MD, author of Touch and the Healing of the World“Old age is presented as a question, asked from diverse perspectives. As readers view old age as a construction of medical policies, a philosophical puzzle, and a network of altruistic friends, they will be drawn in to ask what to call this period of life, how to respond to it, and ultimately how to live it.” —Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller"Insights from The Evening of Life are both comforting and illuminating in discussions regarding the present and future of aging and the end of life." —Hastings Center Report"According to St. Paul, we will receive a transformed body that will make up for the current one's deficiencies, which are likely to be many if we have been fortunate enough to reach the old age whose gifts and challenges these authors so intelligently and sensitively explore." —Studies in Christian EthicsThose with a professional or personal interest in improving care for aging and dying adults will certainly find helpful insights within this book’s chapters. -Journal of Applied Gerontology
£25.19
Yale University Press Death Glitch
Book SynopsisAn accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of deathTrade Review“A compelling collection of case studies about how technology breaks down when faced with the messiness of mortality.”—Gabriel Nicholas, Washington Post“This vital, colorful ethnography shows that tech’s perverse ingenuity does not stop even at death. But tech thereby gets death wrong, mistaking as glitch the very condition of human flourishing.”—John Durham Peters, Yale University“Death Glitch brilliantly reveals how death disrupts Silicon Valley’s best-laid plans: from early efforts to delete pages of dead Facebook users to startups for digital estate planning that die before their clients. An insightful and original take on the limits of techno-solutionism.”—Wendy Chun, author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
£27.50
John Wiley & Sons Inc International Hdbk of Suicide
Book SynopsisWritten by an international group of contributors, this book provides comprehensive and authoritative material on treating and preventing suicidal behavior. Research is focused on the efficacy of the treatment and prevention of suicidal behavior and national prevention programs that exist in a limited number of countries.Trade Review"…a colleague wanted to borrow a book for a lecture he was giving on suicide, there was only one choice as to what to lend him, this volume." (Psychological Medicine, Vol. 33, 2003)Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction (Keith Hawton and Kees van Heeringen). PART I: UNDERSTANDING SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR. Suicide in the Western World (Christopher H. Cantor). Suicide in Asia and the Far East (Andrew T.A. Cheng and Chau-Shoun Lee). Attempted Suicide: Patterns and Trends (Ad J.F.M. Kerkhof). Biological Aspects of Suicidal Behaviour (Lil Traskman-Bendz and J. John Mann). The Psychology of Suicidal Behaviour (J. Mark G. Williams and Leslie R. Pollock). Ethology and Suicidal Behaviour (Robert D. Goldney). Psychiatric Aspects of Suicidal Behaviour: Depression (Jouko K. Lonnqvist). Psychiatric Aspects of Suicidal Behaviour: Schizophrenia (Marc De Hert and Jozef Peuskens). Psychiatric Aspects of Suicidal Behaviour: Substance Abuse (George E. Murphy). Psychiatric Aspects of Suicidal Behaviour: Personality Disorders (Marsha M. Linehan, Shireen L. Rizvi, Stacy Shaw Welch and Benjamin Page). Psychiatric Aspects of Suicidal Behaviour: Anxiety Disorders (Christer Allgulander). Sociology and Suicidal Behaviour (Unni Bille-Brahe). The Genetics of Suicidal Behaviour (Alec Roy, David Nielsen, Gunnar Rylander and Marco Sarchiapone). Pathways to Suicide: an Integrative Approach (Kees van Heeringen, Keith Hawton and J. Mark, G. Williams). PART II: SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES. Suicidal Behaviour in Children: an Emphasis on Developmental Influences (Cynthia R. Pfeffer). Adolescent Suicidal Behaviour: a General Population Perspective (Erik Jan de Wilde). Adolescent Suicidal Behaviour: Psychiatric Populations (Alan Apter and Ornit Freudenstein). Suicidal Behaviour among the Elderly (Daniel Harwood and Robin Jacoby). Sexuality, Reproductive Cycle and Suicidal Behaviour (Jose Catalan). Suicidal Behaviour and the Labour Market (Stephen Platt and Keith Hawton). Repetition of Suicidal Behaviour (Issac Sakinofsky). Physical Illness and Suicidal Behaviour (Elsebeth Nylev Stenager and Egon Stenager). Ethical and Legal Issues (Antoon Leenaars and Colleagues). Suicide and Violence (Mathew K. Nock and Peter M. Marzuk). Suicide among Psychiatric Inpatients (Manfred Wolfersdorf). The Impact of Suicide on Relatives and Friends (Sheila E. Clark and Robert D. Goldney). PART III: THE TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR. Pharmacotherapy of Suicidal Ideation and Behaviour (Robbert J. Verkes and Philip J. Cowen). Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suicidal Ideation and Behaviour (Heidi L. Heard). General Hospital Management of Suicide Attempters (Keith Hawton). Treatment Strategies for Adolescent Suicide Attempters (Philip Hazell). Treatment and Prevention of Suicidal Behaviour in the Elderly (Diego De Leo and Paolo Scocco). Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Management of Suicidal Behaviour (Kees van Heeringen). PART IV: THE PREVENTION OF SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Prediction of Suicide and Attempted Suicide (Robert D. Goldney). General Population Strategies of Suicide Prevention (Rachel Jenkins and Bruce Singh). Prevention of Suicide in Psychiatric Patients (Louis Appleby). Approaches to Suicide Prevention in Asia and the Far East (R. Srinivasa Murthy). Suicide Prevention in Schools (David Shaffer and Madelyn Gould). Suicide Prevention and Primary Care (Konrad Michel). The Role of Mass Media in Suicide Prevention (Armin Schmidtke and Sylvia Schaller). Volunteers and Suicide Prevention (Vanda Scott and Simon Armson). Future Perspectives (Keith Hawton and Kees van Heeringen). Author Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Suicide and Depression in Late Life
Book SynopsisThis book examines the critical issues in understanding and treating depression and suicidal behavior in late life. Chapters cover the biology, psychology, epidemiology, and sociology of depression and suicidal behavior in late life.Table of ContentsCRITICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL SCIENCE. Epidemiology and Inferences Regarding the Etiology of Late-LifeSuicide (G. Kennedy, et al.). The Epidemiology of Late-Life Depression (G. Kennedy). Biological Commonalties Among Aging, Depression, and SuicidalBehavior (L. Schneider). Suicide Among Ethnic Elders (F. Baker). THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES. Clinical Measurement of Suicidality and Coping in Late Life: ATheory of Countervailing Forces (R. Plutchik, et al.). Psychotherapeutic Approaches to the Depressed and Suicidal OlderPerson and Family (J. Richman). Biological Treatment of Severe Late-Life Depression:Pharmacotherapy and Electroconvulsive Therapy (D. Hay & L.Hay). A Brief Antidepressant Prescribing Guide for the Generalist (G.Kennedy). TOWARD A MORE INFORMED PUBLIC POLICY. Death, Dying, and Assisted Suicide (R. Coomaraswamy). The Emerging Agenda for Prevention Through Research and PublicPolicy (G. Kennedy). Indexes.
£153.85
LUP - University of Michigan Press Law at the End of Life
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University of California Press Parting Ways
Book SynopsisExplores the emergence of rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed.Trade ReviewThis thoughtful, unique, moving, and educational book deserves a wide audience... Highly recommended." -- A. W. Klink ChoiceTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction PART I END-OF-LIFE CELEBRATIONS AND PRE-DEATH RITUALS 1. Her Choice: Two Paths Leading to the Same Destination 2. Living Funeral: Celebrating the End of Life 3. Her Life Review: Reliving the Past in the Present 4. Legacy of Memories: Telling Life Stories and Last Wishes 5. Her Season of Lasts: Traditional, Seasonal, Communal Rituals 6. Oral Ethical Will: Video Recording Valuable Last Words 7. Her Living Wake: Reminiscing and Farewell Party 8. Vigil: Holding Hands at the Eleventh Hour PART II POST- DEATH AND MEMORIALIZING RITUALS 9. Her Twenty-First-Century Memorial Service, His Twentieth- Century Funeral 10. Home Funeral: Eco- Friendly Way Out 11. Holistic Approach: Design- It- Yourself Funeral and Cremation Witnessing 12. The Living Unveiling: Technology Innovates Memorializing 13. Her Truth: Finding Life after Death Notes Bibliography
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University of California Press Living and Dying in the Contemporary World
Book SynopsisTaking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. It is suitable for anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, and scholars of religion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Concept Note (Clara Han and Veena Das) SECTION 1. NATALITY, SEXUALITY, REPRODUCTION 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies (Stanford-ISERDD Study Collective) 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East (Aditya Bharadwaj and Marcia C. Inhorn) 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love (Vaibhav Saria) 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico (Anaid Citlalli Reyes Kipp) 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives (Eleana Kim) 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" (Nayanika Mookherjee) 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon (Sylvain Perdigon) SECTION 2. MEDICAL, LEGAL, AND PHARMACEUTICAL SPACES 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care (Sophie Day) 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward (Julie Livingston) 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence (Jonathan M. Metzl) 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China (Shao Jing) 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal (Ian Harper and Nabin Rawal) 13. The Juridical Hospital (Joao Biehl) 14. The Right of Recovery (Adriana Petryna) 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault (Sameena Mulla) 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti (Erica Caple James) SECTION 3. HEALING: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR BODIES * 329 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics (Talal Asad) 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment (A. David Napier) 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey (Christopher Dole) 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer (Bernadette Wegenstein) 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body (Zoe H. Wool) 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere (Aslihan Sanal) 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History (Nancy Rose Hunt) SECTION 4. PRECARIOUS LIVES 25. Life and Concept (Michael D. Jackson) 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Postinvastion Iraq (Hayder Al-Mohammad) 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank (Lotte Buch Segal) 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss (Clara Han) 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence (Sarah Pinto) 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century (Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp) 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry (Carolyn Rouse) 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-Disaster New Orleans (Anne M. Lovell) 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life (Bhrigupati Singh) 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" (Vincanne Adams) SECTION 5: DEATH AND DYING 35. After Life (Michael Lambek) 36. A Good Death, Recorded (Robert Desjarlais) 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality (Anne Allison) 38. Chemonotes (Harry M. Marks) 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other (Roma Chatterji) 40. Life beside Itself (Lisa Stevenson) 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Postgenocide Cambodia (Anne Yvonne Guillou) 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo (Filip De Boeck) 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives (Didier Fassin) 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich (Rabia Ali and Jishnu Das) Contributors Index
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University of California Press Too Easy to Keep
Book SynopsisSome guys don't break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don't commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are our LWOPs [life without parole]. They're usually our easiest keepers. Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisonersthe large and growing population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive interviews with lifers and with prison staff, Too Easy to Keep charts the challenges that a life sentence posesboth to the prisoners and to the staffers charged with caring for them. Surprisingly, many lifers show remarkable resilience and craft lives of notable purpose. Yet their eventual decline will pose challenges to the institutions that house them. Rich in data, Too Easy to Keep illustrates the harsh consequences of excessive sentences and demonstrates a keen need to reconsider punishment policy. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Easy Keeper 1. Becoming Easy 2. Being Easy Isn’t Easy 3. When Easy Becomes Hard 4. Let’s All Be Easy Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Too Easy to Keep
Book SynopsisSome guys don't break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don't commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are our LWOPs [life without parole]. They're usually our easiest keepers. Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisonersthe large and growing population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive interviews with lifers and with prison staff, Too Easy to Keep charts the challenges that a life sentence posesboth to the prisoners and to the staffers charged with caring for them. Surprisingly, many lifers show remarkable resilience and craft lives of notable purpose. Yet their eventual decline will pose challenges to the institutions that house them. Rich in data, Too Easy to Keep illustrates the harsh consequences of excessive sentences and demonstrates a keen need to reconsider punishment policy. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Easy Keeper 1. Becoming Easy 2. Being Easy Isn’t Easy 3. When Easy Becomes Hard 4. Let’s All Be Easy Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Leaving A Narrative of Assisted Suicide
Book SynopsisThe first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland, Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended their lives with assistance. Stavrianakis places his observations of the judgment to end life in this way within a larger inquiry about how to approach and understand the practice of assisted suicide, which he characterizes as operating in a political, legal, and medical parazone, adjacent to medical care and expertise. Frequently, observers too rapidly integrate assisted suicide into moral positions that reflect sociological and psychological commonplaces about individual choice and its social determinants. Leaving engages with core early twentieth-century psychoanalytic and sociological texts arguing for a contemporary approach to the phenomenon of voluntary death, seeking to learn from such conceptual repertoires, as well as to acknowledge their limits. Leaving concludes on the anthropological question of how to account for the ethics of assistance with suicide: to grasp the actuality and composition of the ethical work that goes on in the configuration of a subject, one who is making a judgment about dying, with other participants and observers, the anthropologist included. Trade Review"An exquisite compilation of impeccable sentences and lyrical paragraphs that elucidates the complexities of assisted suicide with its clarity, its humanity, its breadth, and its depth." * Mortality *Table of ContentsA Note of Gratitude Introduction PART ONE. Restricted Action, an Orientation Near Death Parazone Judgment on Trial PART TWO. Leaving, a Casuistry Peter Fabienne and Sylviane Clément Florian PART THREE. Ethos, Three Studies Desire | Narcissism Conduct | Obstinacy Observation | The Neutral Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Safe Enough
Book SynopsisSince the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor safe enough to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts sought a deceptively simple answer: an estimate that the odds of a major accident were, literally, a million to one. Far from simple, this search to quantify accident risk proved to be a tremendously complex and controversial endeavor, one that altered the very notion of safety in nuclear power and beyond. Safe Enough? is the first history to trace these contentious efforts, following the Atomic Energy Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as their experts experimented with tools to quantify accident risk for use in regulation and to persuade the public of nuclear power's safety. The intense conflict over the value of risk assessment offers a window on the history of the nuclear safety debate and the beliefs of its advocates andTrade Review"Wellock’s focus on regulatory principles and practices is key to understanding what nuclear regulation really means. . . . Whether [probabilistic risk assessment] is the best path to follow remains an open issue, as the search continues for an answer to the question that provides the title of this excellent history of technology regulation." * Technology and Culture *"A fascinating story, spanning more than seventy years, of attempts in the United States and abroad to assess and measure risk for a controversial energy source. . . . Wellock’s calm, balanced tone, extended historical sweep, and deep excavation of a variety of archival records make this book a must read for graduate students and scholars interested in risk analysis and the U.S. nuclear industry." * California History *"Safe Enough? is an important book that elucidates an essential historical narrative for nuclear historians while informing readers of its present-day relevance. . . . Safe Enough? should be assigned to graduate students studying how states, societies, and technology interlace to form public policy. Historians of technology will find this book immensely useful for examining human interactions with technology, particularly assessing nuclear reactors as political artifacts." * H-Net Reviews *"Clearly written and compelling." * American Historical Review *"[A]n excellent history." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface 1 When Is a Reactor Safe? The Design Basis Accident 2 The Design Basis in Crisis 3 Beyond the Design Basis: The Reactor Safety Study 4 Putting a Number on "Safe Enough" 5 Beyond Design: Toward Risk-Informed Regulation 6 Risk Assessment Beyond the NRC 7 Risk-Informed Regulation and the Fukushima Accident Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£35.70
Wiley Loss and Bereavement
Book SynopsisThis is a practical guide for those involved in teaching and learning about bereavement, loss and managing change. It takes readers through the theory and the process, and integrates the information into practice.Trade Review"A stimulating and practical book, aimed at students working with those experiencing grief, loss and bereavement in a wide range of settings. The book provides a refreshing approach to a difficult and often harrowing subject." Nursing StandardTable of ContentsPreface;. Acknowledgements;. List of Contributors;. Introduction;. A theoretical framework for understanding loss and the helping process;. Identity and power;. Personal mortality;. Bullying: coercion and control;. A search for understanding - murder and violence;. The effects of sexual violence on individuals and families;. Suicide: an exploration;. Job Loss;. Portrait of family grief;. Changing the emphasis on death - issues surrounding organ donation;. Mass disaster;. Anger, assertiveness and aggression;. Preparing children for loss and bereavement;. Community rites and the process of grieving;. Afterword;. References and Bibliography;. Glossary;. Index.
£61.70
Harvard University Press To Serve the Living
Book SynopsisIn the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. Here is their story.Trade Review[Smith] has done a masterful job in her skillful and compelling narrative detailing the critical intersection of the histories of the African American funeral industry and the modern civil rights movement in the United States. Her attention to the contributions of a number of important figures and personalities (e.g., funeral-home owners, funeral directors and embalmers, civil rights leaders, and other historical figures) is unprecedented in its careful and accurate detail. The book documents many of the unsung heroes who were not only caretakers of the dead, but who also made important contributions to civil rights in ways that have never before been so well integrated into a compelling, readable narrative. She is a gifted storyteller and scholar whose mastery of the history’s nuances is praiseworthy. The book is a scholarly and well-researched account of an important slice of the American experience—and our story. -- Ronald K. Barrett * African American Review *A revelation… Only the most imaginative scholar could use the history of African-American funeral directors to uncover a pivotal part of the struggle for civil rights. That’s precisely what Suzanne Smith has done in this wonderfully original, engaging, and illuminating book. -- Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz AgeBy getting the dead where they need to go, the living get where they need to be. This deeply human pilgrimage is at the center of Smith’s book on African American funeral directors and their frontline service to the nation’s journeys from slavery and civil war, through Jim Crow and ‘separate but equal’ marketplaces—the sad and violent, heroic and hopeful history of race relations and civil rights. -- Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal TradeA lyrical portrait of the African American funeral profession tells us how, for over a century, burying the dead uplifted a people and a profession together amid deep American prejudice that demeaned both. Exploring practices utterly central to African Americans’ living cultural and religious history, Smith has created a history readers will remember long after the book has left their hands. -- Jon Butler, Yale UniversitySmith’s richly detailed history of black funerals illuminates the living world of African American experience. An incredibly important book. -- Gary Laderman, author of Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century AmericaA terrific book. Elegantly written and replete with fascinating details of the African American way of death, To Serve the Living lays bare the role played by black funeral directors in the long struggle for freedom.. -- Shane White, coauthor of Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
£32.36
Princeton University Press The Modern Art of Dying
Book SynopsisHow we die reveals much about how we live. This book 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. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association "However we seek to achieve it, in the end what we most hope for is a good death. For his help in pushing us to think about what this means, Professor Lavi deserves our undying gratitude."--Joanna Reiver, Journal of Legal Medicine "Lavi helped explain what the inhabitants of Christendom understood implicitly for centuries. He is right: We have forgotten how to die."--Michael A. Flannery, The Journal of American History "[V]ery well-researched and elegantly written... [T]hought-provoking and worthwhile reading."--Marcia L. Meldrum, Journal of the American Medical Association "Lavi explains how dying has moves from 'art' to 'technique,' from an experience overseen by a minister and family to one of 'technique' overseen by doctors and constructed by law... Lavi's work represents the best of sociolegal scholarship: it is impressive for its clear conceptualization, its marshalling of an impressive array of historical and cultural evidence, and its lucid, clear, and elegant writing... As a model of concerned and rigorous scholarship, Lavi's book is exemplary."--Alfonso Morales, Law & Society Review "This book, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States provides valuable background information about the end of life, especially related to euthanasia. It provides comprehensive and extensive references and case histories of ways of dying and euthanasia, to the field of gerontology, and to those working with individuals of all ages in a terminal state. This book is geared for all the people who are interested in the issue of euthanasia... This book is very valuable to Christian scholars. Also, readers with religious beliefs and legal systems which differ from those in the United States may find this book very resourceful in helping them to understand why euthanasia is such an important issue in American Judeo-Christian culture and law."--Suk-Young Kang, Ph.D., Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care "Lavi's book contributes to this ongoing discussion by providing a valuable, thoughtful, and concise history of euthanasia in the United States. His book takes us back to the 18th century Methodists, to see how 'the art of dying' gradually became 'technique.' He does a superb job of bringing together insights from several disciplines (history, religion, social science, law, philosophy) which help us to understand the issues involved by showing how art, technology, medicine, religion and social policy have contributed to the situation we find ourselves in today."--Bob Lane, Metapsychology Online ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Ethics of the Deathbed: Euthanasia from Art to Technique 1 Chapter One: The Holy Craft of Dying: The Birth of the Modern Art of Dying 14 Chapter Two: Medical Euthanasia: From Aiding the Dying to Hastening Death 41 Chapter Three: Legalizing Euthanasia: The Role of Law and the Rule of Technique 75 Chapter Four: Euthanasia as Public Policy: The Euthanasia Society of America 99 Chapter Five: Lethal Dosing: Technique beyond the Law 126 Chapter Six: Mercy Killing: The Limits of Technique 144 Epilogue: Art and Technique, Death and Freedom 163 Appendix: Mercy Killing: Case History 173 Notes 181 Bibliography 211 Index 223
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Future of Immortality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe""Bernstein uses history as well as the contemporary landscape to riase questions about the chaging status of the category "human" in increasingly medically engineered bodies. In wonderfully thought-provoking passages, she muses over the relationships between body and mind, biology and technology to rethink, enlarge and playfully undermine the understanding of life itself."---Kate Brown, Times Literary Supplement"A magic dwells. . . By holding these different viewpoints up against each other, [and] Bernstein shows us just how intricate the question of what makes us human really is."---Justine Buck Quijada, Politics, Religion, & Ideology
£63.75
Princeton University Press American Afterlives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers""Touching and beautifully written."---Rosemarie Szostak, Science"Fascinating. . . . American Afterlives describes an extraordinary array of approaches to celebrate — and remember — the dead."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today"It’s hard to make death sexy, but Shannon Lee Dawdy manages to do just that in her fascinating new book about changing practices in American death care and what they can tell us about American society today. . . . Dawdy’s style is playful and somewhat experimental. . . . [A] a highly imaginative, engrossing book about a difficult topic."---Mara Buchbinder, American Ethnologist"A personable book notable for its affection for life, the richness of American culture and the brief, baffling experience of living as a human."---Algernon D’Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News"A fast-moving look at what happens to bodies today—embalming, cremation, gravestones, pendants with ashes, etc. She sees no lack of faith but more 'eclectic, syncretic, speculative, woo-woo, and whackadoo belief.'"---Marvin Olasky, World
£19.80
Princeton University Press American Afterlives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers""Touching and beautifully written."---Rosemarie Szostak, Science"Fascinating. . . . American Afterlives describes an extraordinary array of approaches to celebrate — and remember — the dead."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today"It’s hard to make death sexy, but Shannon Lee Dawdy manages to do just that in her fascinating new book about changing practices in American death care and what they can tell us about American society today. . . . Dawdy’s style is playful and somewhat experimental. . . . [A] a highly imaginative, engrossing book about a difficult topic."---Mara Buchbinder, American Ethnologist"A personable book notable for its affection for life, the richness of American culture and the brief, baffling experience of living as a human."---Algernon D’Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News"A fast-moving look at what happens to bodies today—embalming, cremation, gravestones, pendants with ashes, etc. She sees no lack of faith but more 'eclectic, syncretic, speculative, woo-woo, and whackadoo belief.'"---Marvin Olasky, World
£15.29
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Death and Dying
Book SynopsisThis stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. In recent years, the social sciences have seen an upsurge of interest in death and dying. The fascination with death is reflected in popular media such as newspapers, television documentaries, films and soaps, and, moreover, in the multiplying range of professional roles associated with dying and death. Yet despite its ubiquitous significance, the majority of texts in the field have been written primarily for health professionals. This book breaks with that tradition. It provides a cutting edge, comprehensive discussion of the key topics in death and dying and in so doing demonstrates that the study of mortality is germane to all areas of sociology. The book is organised thematically, utilising empirical material from cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. It carefully addresses questions about social attitudes to mortality, the social nature of deaTrade Review“A comprehensive and readable review of social scientific work published on death and dying over the last few decades. The author expertly develops that review by using aspects of what C. Wright Mills called ‘the sociological imagination’ ... The text is nicely rounded off with an extensive bibliography, a useful resource in itself.” Mortality “A comprehensive and thoughtful overview of the subject area. But what is most refreshing about it is its powerful use of structure-agency debates as tools that both challenge problematic assumptions, and also highlight persistent intrinsic/structural inequalities. This book is also, and crucially, an important reminder of how sociological enquiry can help people who work as carers, researchers and teachers to challenge the inequity of service provision in death, dying and bereavement.” British Journal of Sociology “A thoughtful, comprehensive, up-to-date, well-evidenced, general guide to sociological work on death and dying.” Bereavement Care “This is a tour de force! Glennys Howarth has written a systematic and in-depth text about an area that is becoming increasingly relevant to many disciplines. Her encyclopaedic knowledge of the topic is conveyed comprehensively and accessibly to both the informed and an as yet uninformed readership. It should be essential reading for all those interested in developing their knowledge of dying, death, disposal and bereavement.” Jeanne Katz, Open UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. PART I. SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ATTITUDES TO DEATH. 1. Death, Denial and Diversity. 2. When and How People Die. 3. Life and Death in "Risk Society’. 4. Death, Religion and Spirituality. 5. Death and the Media. PART II. SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES OF DYING. 6. Dying: Institutionalization and Medicalization. 7. The Good Death. 8. The Social Organization of Sudden Death. 9. The Dying and the Dead Body. PART III. POST-DEATH RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE AND SURVIVAL BELIEFS. 10. Grief and Loss. 11. Relationships Between the Living and the Dead. 12. Mortuary Rituals. Conclusion: Resurrecting Death?. Notes. References. Index.
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Farewell to the World
Book SynopsisWhat drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills and maims the people around him? Does suicide or voluntary death' have the same meaning today as it had in earlier centuries, and does it have the same significance in China, India and the Middle East as it has in the West? How should we understand this distressing, often puzzling phenomenon and how can we explain its patterns and variations over time?In this wide-ranging comparative study, Barbagli examines suicide as a socio-cultural, religious and political phenomenon, exploring the reasons that underlie it and the meanings it has acquired in different cultures throughout the world. Drawing on a vast body of research carried out by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and psychologists, Barbagli shows that a satisfactory theory of suicide cannot limitTrade Review“An encyclopedic but immensely readable account of the social norms that surround, and individual motives that propel, such fateful choices… a deeply insightful book that will interest suicide-prevention counselors and others who are curious about this complex topic.”Foreword Reviews"Barbagli’s study is a brilliant synthesis of the history and sociology of suicide, covering both the West and the East, from ancient martyrs to contemporary suicide bombers. He eloquently and persuasively argues for the importance of cultural factors behind huge variations in the propensity to take one’s own life from one society to another."Jeffrey Watt, University of Mississippi"This work is the most important on the sociology of suicide in 100 years. Barbagli lays out the grand picture of changes and variations in time and space, and gives the basis for a theory that is simultaneously cultural, structural and dynamic."Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania"This wide-ranging study provides fascinating insight into, and analysis of, the history and practice of suicide across a range of cultural and historical contexts. The book takes the reader on a methodical and thorough journey through the subject matter."Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: In the West I. The Worst Sin and the Gravest Crime II. The Key to Our Prison III. Killing God, Oneself and Others IV. If Poverty Does Not Protect Part Two: In the East V. Before Becoming a Widow VI. Making the Strong and Powerful Tremble. VII. The Body as a Bomb Conclusions
£58.50
University of British Columbia Press Assisted Suicide in Canada
Book SynopsisAssisted Suicide in Canada provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic of ongoing public debate.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 An Overview of Carter v Canada2 Developments in Law and Policy since the Ruling3 Background to the Moral Debate over MAID4 Moral Arguments for and against MAID5 Invoking the Notwithstanding Clause6 The Ethics of Public Funding for MAID7 Freedom of Conscience for Health-Care Providers8 Additional Legal and Policy IssuesConclusionGlossary; Notes; References; Index
£25.19
Cornell University Press Lost Bodies
Book Synopsis"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."—from the Introduction...Trade Review"In Lost Bodies, Laura Tanner suggestively and elegantly draws together the theoretical co-implications of consumer agency and the body, feminist and phenomenological concepts of intercorporeality, Freudian and Lacanian taxonomies of mourning, as well as visual analysis to investigate confrontations with corporeal vulnerability and loss in a variety of contemporary narratives. Tanner sustains these theoretical and interpretative juxtapositions with equally compelling insight and sensitivity." -- Lindon Barrett, Director, African American Studies, University of California, Irvine"Lost Bodies offers an engaging and imaginative exploration of death, dying, and grief through original readings of a rich array of contemporary texts: poetry, fiction, photography, and even textiles. Laura Tanner makes the issue of loss in our contemporary culture vivid and compelling. Marked by inventive critical frameworks, interdisciplinary range, and a touch of personal reflection, Tanner's book is clearly informed, well shaped, and disciplined by her central concern with the relationships among grief, the process of dying, and the legacy of the lost body." -- Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University, author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response"We shy away from our mortality and we shine off loss with hopeful platitudes. In Lost Bodies, Laura Tanner studies the dance between the living and the dead finding new appreciation for the physical. She parses the nuances of the knower, the known and the way of knowing bodies in transition. By bringing the subconscious body to the conscious level she expands the bounds of our language and challenges traditional constraints. If you want to be more real and more intimate, get visceral." -- Thomas Edward Gass, author of Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
£23.79
Rutgers University Press Prelude to Hospice Florence Wald Dying People
Book SynopsisViewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice expands our understanding of the history of US hospices.Trade Review"For those doing research on death and dying, this book is a must read; it provides a quick and easy-to-understand testimony from people experiencing hospice. Readers may gain inspiration on how to make death a more comfortable process for their patients, their families, or themselves." * Choice *"Emily Abel is a distinguished scholar of medicine, nursing, and caregiving. Her latest book, Prelude to Hospice, offers powerful testimony from patients at the moment when many realized that medical progress had limits, and that technology sometimes needs to give way to care. Her portrayal of Florence Wald shows her deep understanding of the changing role of nurses in the second half of the twentieth century. Anyone who wants to understand the origins of hospice in the United States, the challenges of caregiving, and the ways that today's dilemmas at the end of life were present at the origins of the palliative care movement should read her compelling new book." -- Carla C. Keirns, MD, PhD * historian and palliative care physician *"Emily Abel is one of the most respected, influential historians working on family care giving and now, more recently, death and dying." -- Patricia D'Antonio * director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"If you’re looking for a case study on a dysfunctional research and clinical team, hamstrung by hierarchy and hobbled by boundary violations, this book will leave your mouth ajar." * The Gerontologist *"Partly inspired by Cicely Saunders, [Florence Wald] knew there was a better way to care for the terminally ill and their families. But it was anything but an easy road. This book describes the personal, professional, institutional and societal hurdles she came up against." * IAHPC Newsletter/HospiceCare.com *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Abel’s book is a timely portrayal of one of the founders of the modern hospice movement. In learning about Ms. Wald, it is our responsibility as the reader to take the good, learn from the bad, and continue to build upon and evolve Ms. Wald’s legacy to embrace suffering, loss, and hurt with compassion and empathy.” * Omega *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Setting the Stage 2 Doctor and Nurse 3 Caring across Cultures 4 Hope, Blame, and Acceptance 5 Making Sense of the Findings Conclusion
£33.30
Rutgers University Press Prelude to Hospice Florence Wald Dying People and
Book SynopsisViewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to enable people to live as fully and painlessly as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care. Using a unique set of records, this book expands our understanding of the history of US hospices.Trade Review"Emily Abel is one of the most respected, influential historians working on family care giving and now, more recently, death and dying." -- Patricia D'Antonio * director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"Emily Abel is a distinguished scholar of medicine, nursing, and caregiving. Her latest book, Prelude to Hospice, offers powerful testimony from patients at the moment when many realized that medical progress had limits, and that technology sometimes needs to give way to care. Her portrayal of Florence Wald shows her deep understanding of the changing role of nurses in the second half of the twentieth century. Anyone who wants to understand the origins of hospice in the United States, the challenges of caregiving, and the ways that today's dilemmas at the end of life were present at the origins of the palliative care movement should read her compelling new book." -- Carla C. Keirns, MD, PhD * historian and palliative care physician *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Partly inspired by Cicely Saunders, [Florence Wald] knew there was a better way to care for the terminally ill and their families. But it was anything but an easy road. This book describes the personal, professional, institutional and societal hurdles she came up against." * IAHPC Newsletter/HospiceCare.com *"For those doing research on death and dying, this book is a must read; it provides a quick and easy-to-understand testimony from people experiencing hospice. Readers may gain inspiration on how to make death a more comfortable process for their patients, their families, or themselves." * Choice *"If you’re looking for a case study on a dysfunctional research and clinical team, hamstrung by hierarchy and hobbled by boundary violations, this book will leave your mouth ajar." * The Gerontologist *“Abel’s book is a timely portrayal of one of the founders of the modern hospice movement. In learning about Ms. Wald, it is our responsibility as the reader to take the good, learn from the bad, and continue to build upon and evolve Ms. Wald’s legacy to embrace suffering, loss, and hurt with compassion and empathy.” * Omega *"Emily Abel is one of the most respected, influential historians working on family care giving and now, more recently, death and dying." -- Patricia D'Antonio * director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"Emily Abel is a distinguished scholar of medicine, nursing, and caregiving. Her latest book, Prelude to Hospice, offers powerful testimony from patients at the moment when many realized that medical progress had limits, and that technology sometimes needs to give way to care. Her portrayal of Florence Wald shows her deep understanding of the changing role of nurses in the second half of the twentieth century. Anyone who wants to understand the origins of hospice in the United States, the challenges of caregiving, and the ways that today's dilemmas at the end of life were present at the origins of the palliative care movement should read her compelling new book." -- Carla C. Keirns, MD, PhD * historian and palliative care physician *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Partly inspired by Cicely Saunders, [Florence Wald] knew there was a better way to care for the terminally ill and their families. But it was anything but an easy road. This book describes the personal, professional, institutional and societal hurdles she came up against." * IAHPC Newsletter/HospiceCare.com *"For those doing research on death and dying, this book is a must read; it provides a quick and easy-to-understand testimony from people experiencing hospice. Readers may gain inspiration on how to make death a more comfortable process for their patients, their families, or themselves." * Choice *"If you’re looking for a case study on a dysfunctional research and clinical team, hamstrung by hierarchy and hobbled by boundary violations, this book will leave your mouth ajar." * The Gerontologist *“Abel’s book is a timely portrayal of one of the founders of the modern hospice movement. In learning about Ms. Wald, it is our responsibility as the reader to take the good, learn from the bad, and continue to build upon and evolve Ms. Wald’s legacy to embrace suffering, loss, and hurt with compassion and empathy.” * Omega *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Setting the Stage 2 Doctor and Nurse 3 Caring across Cultures 4 Hope, Blame, and Acceptance 5 Making Sense of the Findings Conclusion Notes Index
£17.09
Rutgers University Press Widows Words
Book SynopsisForty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words, revealing how each woman deals with the trauma of bereavement differently. Whether you are a widow yourself or have simply experienced loss, you will be sure to find something moving and profound in these diverse tales of mourning, remembrance, and resilience.Trade Review“Women have learned to find fortitude in sharing the truth of their lives - not because we have the same truth, but because we find community and support there. The stories in this honest and loving book will give strength to those experiencing widowhood and wisdom to those trying to help them build the rest of their lives.” -- Suzanne Braun Levine * author Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood *“Widows’ Words is an invaluable tool for understanding loss, mourning and grief, and an equally fascinating and compelling read with diverse and varied points of views, which proved to me that every loss is unique yet universal. Nan Bauer-Maglin has brought together many strong female voices that both define and redefine the concept of 'widow.'" -- Jonathan Santlofer * author of The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir *“This collection is a comforting, necessary companion for the many, many women whose love outlasts their partners' lives. The stories are honest, unsentimental and as complicated and varied as marriages themselves.” -- Anna Sale * host of the WNYC Studios podcast Death, Sex & Money *"This heartfelt collection should help widows, and widowers as well, feel less alone as they move through a wrenching transition." * Publishers Weekly *"Expertly compiled and deftly edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin, "Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between" is a unique and very highly recommended addition to both community and academic library collections." * Midwest Book Review *"Gentle, wry humor and strong advice that feels like it’s offered in a warm blanket and a hug. It all makes Widows’ Words a great reference and good comfort even though, for the newly bereaved, it can’t begin to cover everything." * Post News Group *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Prologue: Expectant Widows Alice Goode-Elman “What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir” Kelli Dunham “The Queen Has Spoken” Penelope Dugan “Living a Life” Melanie K. Finney “Preparing for the Journey through Grief”Nan Bauer-Maglin “Deserted/Dumped for a Second TimRecent Widows Nan Bauer-Maglin “A Widow’s Notes: The First Six Months” “My Other Half: Raquel Ramkhelawan interviewed by Maxine Marshall” Lauren Vanett “The Cloak” Alice Derry “’The Most Precious Fit’— A Dialogue with C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed” Michele Neff Hernandez “On Grief” Elisa Clarke Wadham “Wedding Rings” Deborah E. Kaplan “The Afterlife of an Archive” P.C. Moorehead “A Healing Garden” Mimi Schwartz “You See, I Told You So!” Anne Bernays “Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I’m Also Discovering the Pleasures of Living Alone”Long-Time Widows Edie Butler “The Grief Convention” Debby Mayer “10 Scary Things I Have Done Since My Husband Died” Sonia Jaffe Robbins “Being Alone” Barbara E. Marwell “Recreating My Life” Maggie Madagame “Becoming Maggie” Roni Sherman Ramos “Who I Am Revealed” Doris Friedensohn “Losing the Artist, Living with His Art” Nancy H. Womack “After the Aftermath” Joan Michelson “Three Poems”Unique Takes or Digging Deeper Tracy Milcendeau with Merle Froschl, Andrea Hirshman, Molly McEneny, and Heather Slawecki “Widow-to-Widow” Kathleen Fordyce “Parenting as a Widow” Patricia Life “Memories of a Widow’s Daughter” Nancy Shamban “Lost Acts…..” Susanne Braham “Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing” Alice Radosh “Synchroncity and the Secular Mind” Parvin Hajizadeh “Mourning American-style” Jean Y. Leung “The Rocks that Bind” Joan Gussow “On Not Feeling Sad” Kathryn Temple “What They Do Not Tell You” Carrie L. West “Nine Things Resilient People Do After Losing a Spouse or Partner” Lise Menn “Make Lemonade?!” Epilogue Christine Silverstein “The Missing Vow” Acknowledgments Tara Sabharwal “Artist’s Statement” Notes on Contributors
£22.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Pet Loss and Human Bereavement
Book SynopsisDeals with the human/companion animal relationship and what happens when that bond is broken. This book acknowledges the significance of the relationship and the grief involved when a pet dies or is terminally ill. It covers multidisciplinary care that can be given by veterinarians, psychiatrists, social workers, philosopher-ethicists, and others.Table of ContentsForeword (William J. Kay). Preface (William J. Kay, Austin H. Kutscher). I: The Human/Companion Animal Bond. 1. The Moral Status of Animals (Bernard E. Rollin). 2. Pet Animals and Human Well-being (M.W. Fox). 3. Health Consequences of Pet Ownership (Erika Friedmann, Aaron A. Katcher, Sue A. Thomas, James J. Lynch). 4. Nonconventional Human/Companion Animal Bonds (James M. Harris). 5. When Pet Animals Die (Jacob Antelyes). 6. Population Aspects of Animal Mortality (Alan M. Beck). II: The Grieving Human Companion. 7. Grief at the Loss of a Pet ( Boris M. Levinson). 8. Psychosocial Aspects of bereavement (Herbert A. Nieburg). 9. Relief and Prevention of Grief (Leo K. Bustad, Linda M. Hines). 10. Healing Emotionally Disturbed Children Cope with Loss of a Pet (Mary Link). 11. Development of a Social Work Service to Deal with Grief after Loss of a Pet (Eleanor L. Ryder). 12. Social Work in a Veterinary Hospital: Response to Owner Grief Reactions, (Jamie Quackenbush). 13. Illness and Death of Pets: Role of the Human-Health-Care Team (Michael J. McCulloch). III: Veterinary Medicine Perspectives. 14. The Human/Animal Bond Revisited (Esther Braun). 15. Clinical Aspects of Grief Associated with Loss of a Pet: A Veterinarian's View (Marc A. Rosenberg). 16. Role of the Animal Health Technician in Consoling Bereaved Clients (Sally Oblas Walshaw). 17. Owner/Pet Attachment Despite Behavior Problems (Victoria L. Voith). 18. Owner/Pet Pathologic Attachment: The Veterinarian's Nightmare (E.K. Rynearson). 19. Death of Pets Owned by the Elderly: Implications for Veterinary Practice (George Paulus, John C. Thrush, Cyrus S. Stewart, Patrick Hafner). 20. Psychosocial Model of Veterinary Practice, William H. Sullivan, Carole E. Fudin). 21. Family Psychotherapy Methodology: A Model for Veterinarians and Clinicians (D.T. Wessels Jr.). 22. Epilogue: A Historical Perspective, (Egilde Seravalli). Contributors. Index.
£39.85
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Sacred Claims Repatriation and Living Tradition
Book SynopsisThe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects from federally funded institutions. This book analyzes the ways in which religious discourse is used to articulate repatriation claims.
£19.90
University of Minnesota Press Well Be the Last Ones to Let You Down Memoir of
Book SynopsisThis book presents the unique, moving perspective of a gravedigger’s daughter and her lifelong relationship with death. It is also a masterful meditation on the living elements of our cemeteries: our neighbors, friends, and families and how these things come together in the eyes of a young girl whose childhood is suffused with death and the wonder of the living. Trade Review"We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down gently untucks dying, death, and mourning from the dark recesses of the drawer we Midwesterners, descendants of the stoic and neat, have kept it. Choice passages of Hanel’s story so affected me that my throat went sore swallowing grief. All the while, I had the sense of watching a determined child fall down, scrape her knee, and stand up, lip quivering, eyes glistening but resolute." —Nicole Helget, author of The Turtle Catcher"Mesmerizing!" —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeTable of ContentsContents1. We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down2. Digger O’Dell3. In the Midst of Life We Are in Death4. Stormy Weather5. Precious in the Sight of the Lord Is the Death of His Saints6. Break the Plow7. As You Think, You Travel8. When Beauty Dies9. A Gossamer World10. Helter Skelter11. Opening Night12. The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away13. What Was Left BehindEpilogueAcknowledgments
£13.29
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Dead Matter
Book SynopsisBy examining the association between photography and embalming—both as aesthetics and as mourning practices—Margaret Schwartz theorizes the connections between the body and the image and outlines a new politics of representation.Trade Review"In a deep, sophisticated, and riveting book, Margaret Schwartz shows us how corpses become focal points for collective meaning—in nation construction, in violence and martyrdom, and in the passion of fandom. In explaining how the dead circulate among the living, Dead Matter gives us the tools to better understand death as a social and communicative phenomenon, and, one hopes, build more thoughtful relations with the dead."—Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format and The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction"Dead Matter bridges important theorizations of death, the human corpse, and mediation. This book is a critical connecting point between seemingly disparate fields of study."—John Troyer, Deputy Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of BathTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: An Iconography of the Flesh1. The Body of the Nation2. Martyred Bodies3. Tabloid BodiesConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
LUP - University of Georgia Press Final Resting Places
Book SynopsisBrings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation - and how those meanings still influence Americans today.Trade ReviewFinal Resting Places contains elements that certainly will surprise readers who thought they knew everything about the American Civil War. The essays deal with more than death and dying: they reveal cogent details of how people lived, strived for various goals while here on Earth, and have been remembered." - William A. Blair, author of Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914
£138.17
University of Georgia Press Final Resting Places Reflections on the Meaning
Book SynopsisBrings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation - and how those meanings still influence Americans today.Trade ReviewFinal Resting Places contains elements that certainly will surprise readers who thought they knew everything about the American Civil War. The essays deal with more than death and dying: they reveal cogent details of how people lived, strived for various goals while here on Earth, and have been remembered." - William A. Blair, author of Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914
£35.17
Fordham University Press Killing and Letting Die
Book Synopsis"An excellent volume, which will be useful to both professional philosophers and students."-EthicsTrade Review"An excellent volume, which will be useful to both professional philosophers and students." -Ethics
£32.40
University of Hawai'i Press Natures Embrace Japans Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
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£21.56
East European Monographs The Second Vienna Award and the HungarianRomanian
Book SynopsisThis study examines the direct political and diplomatic antecedents, circumstances and consequences of the Second Vienna Award. It focuses on the development of the bilateral relations and the minority issues until the time of the Romanian breakaway from the war, August 23, 1944. The author sought to include a broad base of sources of Hungarian and Romanian archives, the available diplomatic collection of documents, the Hungarian and foreign scientific literature, the press, and the memoirs of contemporary actors.
£46.75
