In this introductory text on thanatology Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience. Drawing from the work of Ernest Becker Death Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World provides a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of death putting extra emphasis on the how death takes place in a rapidly changing world. This new second edition includes the most up-to-date research data and figures related to death and dying. New research on the alternative death movement natural disaster-related deaths and cannabis as a form of treatment for life-threatening illnesses and updated research on physician-assisted suicide as well as on grief as it relates to the DSM-5 have been added. |Death Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World | Sociology
