Social Science - Death & Dying

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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellne...

Barbara Ehrenreich

Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2018

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matte...

Atul Gawande

Named a Best Book of the Year byThe Washington Post Apple iBooks The New York Times Book Review NPR Amazon Chicago TribuneMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from ha...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2015

Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicin...

Blair Bigham

In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era. Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable t...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2022

Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of...

Robert Bringhurst

In this powerful little book, two leading intellectuals illuminate the truth about where our environmental crisis is taking us. Writing from an island on Canada's Northwest coast, Robert Bringhurst and Jan Zwicky weigh in on the death...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2018

The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art...

Julia Cooper

The Last Word investigates the debased art of eulogy. Through insightful, surprisingly playful readings of famous eulogies (from a scene in Love Actually to Jacques Derrida's heart-rending essays on the deaths of his peers), Cooper ar...

Paperback
Published: May 2017

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Oth...

Caitlin Doughty

New York Times Bestseller\r\n Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award\r\n “Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian\n\nEveryone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2020

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellne...

Barbara Ehrenreich

The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback! From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new un...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2019

At the End of Life: True Stories abou...

Lee Gutkind

What should medicine do when it can't save your life?The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressive interventions. And yet, eventually everyone dies—and although most Americans say they would...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2012

A Long Day at the End of the World: A...

Brent Hendricks

A chilling memoir of the Tri-State Crematory incidentIn February 2002, hundreds of abandoned and decayed bodies were discovered at the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, making it the largest mass desecration in modern American his...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2013

Butterflies and Second Chances: A Mom...

Annette Hines

The world Annette Hines knew exploded when her infant daughter Elizabeth was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease--a degenerative, life-limiting illness. Annette's joy quickly turned to apprehension and she knew nothing would ever be ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2019

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and ...

Stephen Jenkinson

Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades o...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2015

On Death and Dying

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Ten years after Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's death, a commemorative edition with a new introduction and updated resources section of her beloved groundbreaking classic on the five stages of grief.One of the most important psychological st...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2014

Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of ...

Bess Lovejoy

A “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead.For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2016

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in...

Sunita Puri

"A profound exploration of what it means for all of us to live--and to die--with dignity and purpose." --People "Visceral and lyrical." --The Atlantic As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2020

Angelic Attendants: What Really Happe...

Julie Ryan

Julie Ryan is an inventor, entrepreneur, medical intuitive and psychic whose learned skills have helped many families understand the glorious side of the dying process. This process involves angels, multitudes of deceased family and f...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2017

Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilien...

Jill Smolowe

"An absolute must-read for people struggling with loss." -- Publishers Weekly In Four Funerals and a Wedding, Smolowe jostles preconceptions about caregiving, defies cliche´s about losing loved ones, and reveals a stunning...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2014

The Conversation: A Revolutionary Pla...

Angelo E. Volandes

There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that mos...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2016

Modern Death: How Medicine Changed th...

Haider Warraich

"Warraich's elegant and poignant book takes us on an unforgettable journey....He succeeds in humanizing a complex topic." ―Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times bestselling author of The GeneThere is no more universal truth...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2018

Peaceful Passages: A Hospice Nurse's ...

Janet Wehr Rn

Joy is a word rarely associated with death. Yet joy is ultimately the effect in this collection of stories about Janet Wehr's experiences in witnessing the death of her patients during her fifteen years as a hospice nurse. Her first-h...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2015

Confessions of a Funeral Director: Ho...

Caleb Wilde

"I tremble to say there's good in death, because I've looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and I've seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow, but I've also seen something more in death, something good. Death's hands aren't ...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2018

At the End of Life: True Stories abou...

Francine Prose

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Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

At the End of Life: True Stories abou...

Francine Prose

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Abridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2021
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