...Chapter 6 dissects how Mexicans processed and came to terms with death, especially tragic deaths of youth. It examines the moral panic that arose regarding youth and their perceived propensity for self-destruction and other violent behaviors. The documentary base of this chapter draws mostly from...

...This chapter examines how the statistics generated by the General Register Office (GRO) were used to measure and test the progress of England’s emerging public health system. It does so by focusing on the generation and circulation of one fact in particular: death rates. Two broad points are argued...

...Mass incarceration exists in America on a scale unmatched in global history. America is also the only Western democracy that has not abolished the death penalty; and one of the nations that execute the most prisoners alongside abusive dictatorships like China, North Korea, and Iran. American...

...Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, the literal truth of the Bible, apocalyptical prophecies, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sexual education, gun control, mass incarceration, the death...

...In this chapter, the author, a twenty-five-year-old woman prisoner in Michigan, shares her personal story of pregnancy, motherhood, the death of her father, and the disappearance of her husband. At the time of writing she had been incarcerated since October 17, 1997. It was her first time being...

... the magnitude of the difficulty of locating and receiving the benefits of health services in a prison. Her story captures the most hideous consequence of terrible health care in prison: death. Arkansas correctional staff and asylum seekers refugees deaths health care for incarcerated women medications...

...This chapter argues that to chase after drifters is to chase after ghosts. As victims of social death—as people degraded by the forced withdrawal of mutuality and shared respect from their lives—drifters are caught in spirals of spectral visibility and social invisibility that constitute them...

...This chapter starts the search for the historical setting of the Qumranic Messiah with a discussion of two apocalyptic works, which tell us about the violent death of the Messiah of Qumran. The first task is to date the events described in these works. In an apocalyptic work the author usually...

... of the Black Death all took their place beside festive tournaments, ballads of courtly love, and the slowly decaying traditions of chivalry. Christine de Pizan was a part of this world, swept up by the latest ideas in art and poetry and yet deeply attached to her faith in Christianity. Christine de Pizan...

...This chapter focuses on the death squads of the Shanghai Station of Juntong. It explains that kidnapping was a specialty of the secret agents commanded by Dai Li, and it was conducted on a vast scale that by 1937, Special Services Department (SSD) agents boasted that they could kidnap anybody...

... of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its time. In addition to exposing the inner workings of the secret police, whose death squads, kidnappings, torture, and omnipresent surveillance terrorized critics...

...The legal team returns to El Salvador for interviews crucial for gathering evidence about the death squad financiers and understanding further details of the Romero assassination. A worker for the ARENA party in the early 1980s discloses significant information about party members and their links...

... in Honduras. The legal team refuses to negotiate with Saravia unless he reveals everything he knows about those responsible for the Romero assassination and the financing of Roberto D’Aubuisson’s death squad, and although the meeting ends without an agreement, Saravia does make some interesting disclosures...

..., a spirituality of seeking began to emerge, leading individuals to go beyond established religious institutions. In subsequent chapters, the book examines attempts to reassert spiritual discipline, encounters with the sacred (such as angels and near-death experiences), and the development...

...This chapter focuses on the conversations in puppet play performance in the episode concerning the death of Indrajit, which cover not only verbal exchanges but also dialogic relations between oral commentary and the chanted verses. It argues that this dialogism further weakens the poet's voice...

... in opposition to the death penalty in the mid-1950s. Like Chessman, Ells faced execution for a crime other than murder. From death row, Wells helped direct the campaign to save his life through frequent correspondence with Civil Rights Congress leaders, attorneys, and labor unions. To be part of California's...

...This chapter narrates the events that surrounded Joseph Grinnell's sudden death in the spring of 1939. It shows that his death had the biggest blow in the life of Alexander since her father died. The chapter examines a document that Grinnell drew up shortly before his death, which reiterated...

...Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confront us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation...

...This book explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. Demonstrating that the historical and theoretical relationship between kabbalah and western philosophy is far more intimate and extensive than any previous scholar has ever suggested, the book draws...

...In this chapter, the author narrates her mother's last moments and the way they conducted the farewell party. The author contemplates the parallels in her parents' lives and their polar opposite approaches to death. Sitting in the ambulance with her mother's dead body on the way home makes...