Papers presented at the Conference 'Death/Dark/Thanatourism' at New York University in April 2010.

When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the at

Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor for sites that

The phenomenon of 'suicide tourism', where people travel to other countries to receive assistance in committing suicide because their national laws do not permi

This book takes the concept of “dark tourism”—journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity—in an innovative yet essential direction by applying i