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Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies Études transculturelles |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathy Charmaz; Glennys Howarth; Allan Kellehear |
ISBN: | 0333670418 9780333670415 0312165455 9780312165451 |
OCLC Number: | 35249505 |
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 Don't: 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 a 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. 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Kathy Charmaz, Glennys Howarth, and Allan Kellehear. |
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- Death -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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- Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
- Death -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Mort -- Aspect social -- Études transculturelles.
- Mort -- Aspect social -- Australie.
- Mort -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Mort -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
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- Australia.
- Great Britain.
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- Sociologie de la mort -- Australie.
- Sociologie de la mort -- États-Unis.
- Sociologie de la mort -- Grande-Bretagne.
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