Death and Dying

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Blue Juice

Euthanasia in Veterinary Medicine

Patricia Morris

How veterinarians and owners manage companion animal euthanasia

244 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table

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Closure

The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us

Nancy Berns

Do we really need closure after bad things happen?

228 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table

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A Complex Sorrow

Reflections on Cancer and an Abbreviated Life (Marianne A. Paget)

Edited by Marjorie L. DeVault

The last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her work

176 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 3 halftones

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Drawing the Line

Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital

Samuel Gorovitz

A moving and hard-hitting glimpse of daily reality at a major hospital

216 pages | 5.75 x 8.5

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Final Negotiations

A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness
Revised and Expanded Edition

Carolyn Ellis

A poignant autoethnography that reflects back forty years on loving someone chronically ill

416 pages | 6 x 9

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Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child

Paul C. Rosenblatt

Advice to couples and counselors about how to deal with the death of a child

200 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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How We Die Now

Intimacy and the Work of Dying

Karla Erickson

Insights from elders and their caregivers on the end of life

208 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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Inheritance Law and the Evolving Family

Ralph C. Brashier

How inheritance law has failed to recognize the modern family

272 pages | 6 x 9

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Life and Death in Intensive Care

Joan Cassell

A penetrating look at the values, systems, and life-and-death dramas in the world of the surgical intensive care unit

248 pages | 6 x 9

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My Mother's Hip

Lessons from the World of Eldercare

Luisa Margolies

What most of us don't know about the longevity revolution

360 pages | 6 x 9

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Pedagogies of Woundedness

Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority

James Kyung-Jin Lee

What happens when illness betrays Asian American fantasies of indefinite progress?

224 pages | 6 x 9

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Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR

Stefan Timmermans

Restoring dignity to sudden death

272 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 figs.

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Undoing Suicidism

A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide

Alexandre Baril

Proposes a radical reconceptualization of suicide and assisted suicide by theorizing suicidism—the oppression of suicidal people

334 pages | 6 x 9

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