Sociology of Death and Dying

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Razack, S. (2015). “People Die: A Killing Indifference.” In Dying from improvement: Inquests and inquiries into Indigenous deaths in custody. University of Toronto Press

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Tony Walter (2017) “Bodies and ceremonies: is the UK funeral industry still fit for purpose?” Mortality, 22:3, 194-208

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Cox, G. R., & Thompson, N. (2020). Death and dying: Sociological perspectives. Routledge

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Kastenbaum, R., & Moreman, C. (2018). Death, society, and human experience. Routledge. (Older version on reserve at the library)

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Kearl, M. C. (1989). Endings: A sociology of death and dying. Oxford University Press, USA

Kellehear, A. (2007). A social history of dying. Death and dying, a reader, 61-84

Kemp, A. (2018). Death, dying, and bereavement in a changing world. Routledge

Leslie, M. (2016). “‘I can't put that on paper.’ How medical professional values shape the content of death certificates.” International Journal of Law in Context, 12(2), 178-194

Lock, M. (2002). Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. University of California Press

McManus, R. (2017). Death in a global age. Bloomsbury Publishing. (ON RESERVE)

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Seale, C. (1998). Constructing death: The sociology of dying and bereavement

Snyder, Terri L. The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America. University of Chicago Press, 2015

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Tolstoy, L. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Walter, T. (2015). Sociological perspectives on death, dying, and bereavement. Death, dying, and bereavement: Contemporary perspectives, institutions, and practices, 31-43

Walter, T. (2020) Death in the Modern World. London: Sage