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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying

Waterboy - Making Sense Of My Son's Suicide (Paperback): Glynis Horning Waterboy - Making Sense Of My Son's Suicide (Paperback)
Glynis Horning
R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A compelling and agonising story.

Durban-based journalist Glynis Horning and her husband Chris woke up one Sunday morning almost two years ago to the devastating discovery of their 25-year-old son Spencer dead in his bed. Horning’s story chronicles a parent’s worst nightmare. Establishing that his death was suicide, Horning embarks on a journey of anguished self-recrimination.

Should she not have seen the signs? Could she somehow have prevented it? As she struggles with Spencer’s decision to end his life, she has to learn to understand what the depths of depression entail. We feel Horning’s pain, and learn to understand and feel Spencer’s pain, at a visceral level.

Surrounded by loving family and friends, Horning pieces together the puzzle of Spencer’s death, writing with a brutal and heart-searing intensity of grief and loss, but also of the joys of celebrating her son’s life. This book will touch anyone who has experienced a mental health journey directly or indirectly, or a searing loss. Her wisdom and insight are extraordinary.

Fi - A Memoir Of My Son (Paperback): Alexandra Fuller Fi - A Memoir Of My Son (Paperback)
Alexandra Fuller
R440 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R47 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra Fuller is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.

And then – suddenly and incomprehensibly – her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep.

No stranger to loss – young siblings, a parent, a home country – Alexandra is nonetheless levelled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve herself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers – in poetry, in rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed as a child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating and unexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions for it.

Autopsy - Life in the trenches with a forensic pathologist in Africa (Paperback): Ryan Blumenthal Autopsy - Life in the trenches with a forensic pathologist in Africa (Paperback)
Ryan Blumenthal
R293 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R26 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A hair-raising account about the ins and outs of practising forensic pathology in Africa As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal's chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed thousands of autopsies, which have helped bring numerous criminals to book. In Autopsy he covers the hard lessons learnt as a rookie pathologist, as well as some of the most unusual cases he's encountered. During his career, for example, he has dealt with high-profile deaths, mass disasters, death by lightning and people killed by African wildlife. Blumenthal takes the reader behind the scenes at the mortuary, describing a typical autopsy and the instruments of the trade. He also shares a few trade secrets, like how to establish when a suicide is more likely to be a homicide. Even though they cannot speak, the dead have a lot to say - and Blumenthal is there to listen.

The Invisible Parade (Hardcover): Leigh Bardugo The Invisible Parade (Hardcover)
Leigh Bardugo; Illustrated by John Picacio
R470 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R95 (20%) Pre-order

Everyone in the neighborhood was getting ready for the party.
Everyone knew somebody on the guest list. . . .
This was the day the dead returned.

There's a party tonight, but Cala doesn't want to go. While her family prepares for the celebration, Cala grieves her grandfather and tries to pretend she's not afraid.

But when she is separated from her family at the cemetery, Cala encounters four mysterious riders who will show her she is actually quite brave after all.

Brimming with magic and humor, The Invisible Parade is the first picture-book collaboration between award-winner John Picacio and New York Times bestselling Leigh Bardugo. Set on the night of Día de Muertos, Cala's story is one of love, loss, and the courage that can be found in unexpected places.

End-of-Life Decisions - A Psychosocial Perspective (Hardcover): Maurice D. Steinberg, Stuart J. Youngner End-of-Life Decisions - A Psychosocial Perspective (Hardcover)
Maurice D. Steinberg, Stuart J. Youngner
R2,020 R1,893 Discovery Miles 18 930 Save R127 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, the lens of the media has narrowed issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide to a drama involving two players: Dr. Kevorkian and the law. This has left suffering patients and their families unrecognized and isolated when facing the most painful life decision.

Here at last is a book that addresses the role of psychiatry in dealing with a major, controversial topic in American medicine today& mdash;treatment decisions at the end of life. "End-of-Life Decisions: A Psychosocial Perspective" acknowledges and explores the role psychiatrists can play as advisers to the terminally ill and their loved ones. It describes the wide range of emotional and psychiatric issues faced by the patient, family, and physician that affect choices patients make to limit treatment or seek physician assistance in dying.

A distinguished group of contributors, all of whom have extensive experience dealing with end-of-life issues in clinical practice, address topics that may not have been considered previously. From dealing with issues of terminal illnesses in children, to making difficult treatment decisions for patients with AIDS; from judging the competency of clinically depressed patients for making sound decisions, to understanding the influence of family dynamics, economic forces, and language differences on doctor-patient communication& mdash;the book uses specific case studies and data to explore the role of professionals in end-of-life decisions.

"End-of-Life Decisions" strikes a careful balance between the need for patient autonomy and the challenge to make well-formulated treatment decisions. This book will heighten modern medicine& rsquo;s and society& rsquo;s consciousnessconcerning the difficult challenges faced by patients and their families when making end-of-life decisions

Constructing Death - The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement (Hardcover, New): Clive Seale Constructing Death - The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement (Hardcover, New)
Clive Seale
R3,023 Discovery Miles 30 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A basic motivation for social and cultural life is the problem of death. By analysing the experiences of dying and bereaved people, as well as institutional responses to death, Clive Seale shows its importance for understanding the place of embodiment in social life. He draws on a comprehensive review of sociological, anthropological and historical studies, including his own research, to demonstrate the great variability that exists in human social constructions for managing mortality. Far from living in a 'death denying' society, dying and bereaved people in contemporary culture are often able to assert membership of an imagined community, through the narrative reconstruction of personal biography, drawing on a variety of cultural scripts emanating from medicine, psychology, the media and other sources. These insights are used to argue that the maintenance of the human social bond in the face of death is a continual resurrective practice, permeating everyday life.

Teaching Death and Dying (Hardcover): Christopher M. Moreman Teaching Death and Dying (Hardcover)
Christopher M. Moreman
R2,480 Discovery Miles 24 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s. Courses on some aspect of death and dying can now be found at most institutions of higher learning. These courses tend to stress the psycho-social aspects of grief and bereavement, however, ignoring the religious elements inherent to the subject. This collection is the first to address the teaching of courses on death and dying from a religious-studies perspective.
The book is divided into seven sections. The hope is that this volume will not only assist teachers in religious studies departments to prepare to teach unfamiliar and emotionally charged material, but also help to unify a field that is now widely scattered across several disciplines.

New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes - Continuity, Change, and Contestation (Hardcover): Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes - Continuity, Change, and Contestation (Hardcover)
Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp; As told to Avril Maddrell
R3,018 Discovery Miles 30 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Establishing a new set of international perspectives from around the world on and experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes - material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death - to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights. Chapters reveal how urban deathscapes are experienced, used, managed and described in specific locales in varied settings; how their norms and values intersect and at times conflict with the norms of dominant and assumed practices; and how they are influenced by the dynamic practices, politics and demographics typical of urban spaces. Case studies from across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America highlight the differences between deathscapes, but also show their clear commonality in being as much a part of the world of the living as they are of the dead. With a people- and space-centred approach, this book will be an interesting read for human geography, death studies and urban studies scholars, as well as social and cultural anthropologists and sociologists. Its international and interdisciplinary nature will also make this a beneficial book for planning and landscape architecture, religious studies and courses on death practices.

Adolescent Suicide (Hardcover): Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Adolescent Suicide (Hardcover)
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
R1,085 Discovery Miles 10 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Even the most skilled therapist may underestimate suicide potential. Careful assessment and competent psychiatric intervention cannot always predict the suicidality of a particular person. "Adolescent Suicide" (GAP Report 140) presents techniques that allow psychiatrists and all those caring for the health and welfare of adolescents to respond to signals of distress with timely therapeutic intervention. It also suggests measures of anticipatory prevention.

"Adolescent Suicide" presents an overview of adolescent suicidal behavior. It explores risk factors, the identification and evaluation of the suicidal adolescent, and approaches to therapy. It offers both historical and cross-cultural perspectives, the relevance of suicide to adolescent development, mental health training needs regarding suicidality, and related issues such as public health policies and medicolegal concerns.

The risk of suicide presents a unique crisis in adolescent development. For this reason, all mental health professionals will find this report an indispensable tool in the treatment of adolescents at risk for suicide. Drawing from years of combined experience, this committee has applied its expertise on adolescent development to the sobering problem of suicide.

Building a Life Worth Living - A Memoir (Paperback): Marsha M Linehan Building a Life Worth Living - A Memoir (Paperback)
Marsha M Linehan
R474 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R61 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Flameless Liquid Cremation (Hardcover): Hal Peters Flameless Liquid Cremation (Hardcover)
Hal Peters
R986 Discovery Miles 9 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sailing into the Light (Hardcover): Susan Highsmith Sailing into the Light (Hardcover)
Susan Highsmith
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Haunted - the Death Mother Archetype (Hardcover): Violet Sherwood Haunted - the Death Mother Archetype (Hardcover)
Violet Sherwood; Foreword by Mary Harrell
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Summit - A Guide from Pain to Peace (Hardcover): Cindy Paige Summit - A Guide from Pain to Peace (Hardcover)
Cindy Paige
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anthology of Death, Dying, and the Living (Hardcover): Atiba Rougier Anthology of Death, Dying, and the Living (Hardcover)
Atiba Rougier
R4,458 Discovery Miles 44 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Buried Beneath Cleveland: - Lost Cemeteries of Cuyahoga County (Paperback): William G. Krejci Buried Beneath Cleveland: - Lost Cemeteries of Cuyahoga County (Paperback)
William G. Krejci
R517 R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Journey into the Looking Glass - Finding Hope after the Loss of Loved Ones (Hardcover, . ed.): Mary E Welsh Journey into the Looking Glass - Finding Hope after the Loss of Loved Ones (Hardcover, . ed.)
Mary E Welsh; Foreword by Debra L Hayes; Edited by Marvin Wilmes
R953 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R131 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Right Way of Death - Restoring the American Funeral Business to Its True Calling (Hardcover): Eric Layer The Right Way of Death - Restoring the American Funeral Business to Its True Calling (Hardcover)
Eric Layer
R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart - Hope and Healing After Losing Your Partner (Hardcover): Gary Roe Comfort for the Grieving Spouse's Heart - Hope and Healing After Losing Your Partner (Hardcover)
Gary Roe
R598 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Saint Worm - Poems (Hardcover): Hailey Leithauser Saint Worm - Poems (Hardcover)
Hailey Leithauser
R657 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shattered - Surviving the Loss of a Child (Hardcover): Gary Roe Shattered - Surviving the Loss of a Child (Hardcover)
Gary Roe
R590 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Scent of Yellow Roses - A Memoir of Hope and Healing (Hardcover, Large Type / Large Print Ed): Susan M Harriman Smelser The Scent of Yellow Roses - A Memoir of Hope and Healing (Hardcover, Large Type / Large Print Ed)
Susan M Harriman Smelser
R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Living a Purposeful Life (Hardcover): Kalman J. Kaplan Living a Purposeful Life (Hardcover)
Kalman J. Kaplan; Foreword by Michael Shapiro
R979 R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Save R147 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Soul Companion - A Memoir (Hardcover): Judy Hilyard Soul Companion - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Judy Hilyard
R590 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Caring through the Funeral (Hardcover): Gene Fowler Caring through the Funeral (Hardcover)
Gene Fowler
R883 R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Save R122 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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