End of life issues including:

• Attitudes to organ donation
• Ageing: dying, death and bereavement
• Sociology of the body
• Sociology of ageing, quality of life, and gender issues
• The social organisation of death
• Funeral organisation and memorialisation
• The social context of youth suicide
• Euthanasia as a new social movement

Sociology of health and illness

Qualitative research methodology

Books

G. Howarth (2007) Death and Dying: a sociological introduction (opens in new window)
Cambridge: Polity Press.

G. Howarth & O. Leaman (eds) (2001) The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (opens in new window)
London: Routledge. (translated into Portuguese, Japanese and Indonesian)

E. Hallam, G. Howarth and J. Hockey (1999) Beyond the Body: death and social identity, London: Routledge (opens in new window)

G. Howarth (1996) Last Rites: the work of the modern funeral director, New York: Baywood (opens in new window)

P. C. Jupp & G. Howarth (eds) (1997) The Changing Face of Death, Basingstoke: Macmillan, [St Martin's Press, USA]

K. Charmaz, G. Howarth & A. Kellehear (eds) (1997) The Unknown Country: Death in Australia, Britain and the USA, Basingstoke: Macmillan, [St Martin's Press, USA]

G. Howarth & P.C. Jupp (eds) (1996) Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal, Basingstoke: Macmillan, [St Martin's Press, USA]

Articles and book chapters

G. Howarth (2008) 'The development of Death Studies in Europe', in S. Shimazono (ed) What is Death and Life Studies? Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press

G. Howarth (2007) 'Whatever happened to social class? An examination of the neglect of working class cultures in the sociology of death', Health Sociology Review, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp425-435.

G. Howarth (2007) 'The social context of death in old age', Working with Older People, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp17-21.

G. Howarth (2007) 'The Rebirth of Death: continuing relationships with the dead', in Mitchell M, 'Remember Me: Constructing Immortality - Beliefs on Immortality, Life and Death', Routledge, 2007 pp19-34 (opens in new window)

Gilchrist, H. Howarth, G. and Sullivan, G. (2007) 'The Cultural Context of Youth Suicide in Australia: unemployment, identity and gender', Social Policy and Society, Volume 6(2). (opens in new window)

G. Howarth (2001) 'Grieving in Public', in J. Hockey, J. Katz & N. Small (eds.) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual, Open University Press, 2001, pp247-255 (opens in new window)

G. Howarth (2000) 'Dismantling the boundaries between life and death', Mortality, Vol. 5, No 2, 2000, pp127-139.

G. Howarth (1998)
'"Just Live for Today". Living, caring, ageing and dying', Ageing and Society,  Vol. 18, No 6, 1998.

G. Howarth (1998) 'What's emotion go to do with it? Reflections on the personal in health research', Annual Review of the Health Social Sciences, Vol. 6, December 1998, pp2-8.

G. Howarth and M. Jefferys (1996) 'Euthanasia: a sociological perspective', with M. Jefferys, British Medical Bulletin, Vol. 52, No 2.

G. Howarth (1993) 'Investigating Deathwork', Sociological Review Monograph No. 40, The Sociology of Death (D. Clark ed.)

G. Howarth (1993) 'AIDS and Undertakers: the business of risk management', Critical Public Health, Vol. 4, No 3.