| Description |
xv, 268 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Death in the Country of Matilda / Allan Kellehear and Ian Anderson -- 2. Secular, Savage and Solitary: Death in Australian Painting / Lesley Fitzpatrick -- 3. Good Girls Die, Bad Girls Dont: the Uses of the Dying Virgin in nineteenth-century Australian Fiction / Susan K. Martin -- 4. Prayers to Broken Stones; War and Death in Australia / Phillip D'Alton -- 5. The Legacy of Suicide: the Impact of Suicide on Families / Mary Fraser--6. Death and the Great Australian Disaster / Beverley Raphael -- 7. Is there a British Way of Death?/ Glennys Howarth -- 8. Women, Death and in Memoriam Notices in the Local British Newspaper / Sheila Adams -- 9. The Social Construction of Funerals in Britain / Bernard Smale -- 10. Emotional Reserve and the English Way of Grief / Tony Walter -- 11. Why was England the First Country to Popularize Cremation?/ Peter C. Jupp -- 12. The Public Construction of AIDS Deaths in the United Kingdom/ Neil Small |
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13. The American Ways of Death / Michael R. Leming and George E. Dickinson -- 14. You Never Have To Die! On Mormons, NDEs, Cryonics and the American Immortalist Ethos / Michael Kearl -- 15. Death, Dying and Bioethics: Current Issues in the USA / Robert Bendiksen -- 16. Managing the Spectre of Death: the War against Drug Use and AIDS in America / Judith A. Levy and Daniel J. Amick -- 17. Grief and Loss of Self / Kathy Charmaz -- 18. Diversity in Universality: Dying, Death and Grief / Donald P. Irish |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Death -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Death -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Author |
Charmaz, Kathy, 1939-
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Howarth, Glennys.
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Kellehear, Allan, 1955-
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| LC no. |
96034794 |
| ISBN |
0312165455 |
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0333670418 |
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0534952038 (paperback) |
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