Jason L. Powell PhD, FRSA, AoU, FInstAM, FCMI, CSBP is Professor and Provost at Crescent College Birmingham. He is an elected Academician of The Academy of Urbanism, and Companion of the Society of Bereavement Practitioners (7 ever in history).

Dr. Powell has interests in interdisciplinary research focusing on ageing, Foucault and social policy. He has held many research and knowledge exchange grants in the UK, EU and Asia and disseminated his research globally with many publications including 70 academic books and top ranked refereed journal articles, ie, The Journal of Applied Gerontology; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; The Canadian Journal of Sociology; and The Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 

Professor Powell is Editor-in-Chief of Illness, Crisis & Loss (SAGE). 

¿The Social Construction of Death and Aging. - Sociological perspectives of death and aging. - Changing histories of death and aging. - The embodiment of aging, dying, and death. - Aging, death, and disposal: ritual and custom. - Contemporary Social Issues of Death and Aging. - Institutions of death. - Paradoxes of death: suicide and euthanasia. - At the hands of the state: aging and the death penalty. - Aging, terrorism, war, and death. - Conclusion: reconstructing the social construction of death and aging