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The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
ISBN: 9781635902365
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
A personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.
Bye Bye I Love You
The Story of Our First and Last Words
ISBN: 9780262049429
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 11, 2025
A beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words—and the many facets of how language begins and ends—from a pioneering language writer.
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
A Morbid Guide
ISBN: 9780262046039
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 20, 2022
A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens.
The Case against Death
ISBN: 9780262543163
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 1, 2022
A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension.
Death and Dying
ISBN: 9780262542425
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2021
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge death's existential and emotional realities.
Technologies of the Human Corpse
Technologies of the Human Corpse
ISBN: 9780262542319
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today.
Doomed and Famous
Selected Obituaries
ISBN: 9780997567472
Publisher: Sequence Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.
Online Afterlives
Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture
ISBN: 9780262539395
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2020
How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death.
The Craft of Dying, 40th Anniversary Edition
The Craft of Dying
The Modern Face of Death
ISBN: 9780262537346
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2019
The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.
The Undertaker at Work
ISBN: 9781907222283
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2015
A comprehensive historical survey of the work of undertakers in the first half of the twentieth century, essential reading for anyone interested in understanding an often hidden but certainly most fascinating trade.

The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
ISBN: 9781635902365
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
Bye Bye I Love You
The Story of Our First and Last Words
ISBN: 9780262049429
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 11, 2025
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
A Morbid Guide
ISBN: 9780262046039
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 20, 2022
The Case against Death
ISBN: 9780262543163
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 1, 2022
Death and Dying
ISBN: 9780262542425
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2021
Technologies of the Human Corpse
Technologies of the Human Corpse
ISBN: 9780262542319
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
Doomed and Famous
Selected Obituaries
ISBN: 9780997567472
Publisher: Sequence Press
Pub Date: February 2, 2021
Online Afterlives
Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture
ISBN: 9780262539395
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2020
The Craft of Dying, 40th Anniversary Edition
The Craft of Dying
The Modern Face of Death
ISBN: 9780262537346
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2019
The Undertaker at Work
ISBN: 9781907222283
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2015