DEATH AND DYING: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION.
Publisher: POLITY PRESS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: CAMBRIDGE
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 312
Description: "Glennys Howarth 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 organized thematically, utilizing empirical material from cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. It carefully addresses questions about social attitudes to mortality, the social nature of death and dying, and explanations for change and diversity, and explores traditional and contemporary experiences of death."--Jacket.