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The unknown country : experiences of death in Australia, Britain, and the USA

Author: Kathy Charmaz
Publisher: London : Macmillan Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The subjects of death and dying are approached in this study through the social prism of US, British and Australian culture.
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kathy Charmaz
ISBN: 0333670418 9780333670415
OCLC Number: 80438020
Description: xv, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: Preface - Notes on Contributors - Death in the Country of Matilda; A.Kellehear & I.Anderson - Secular, Savage and Solitary: Death in Australian Painting; L.Fitzpatrick - Good Girls Die, Bad Girls Don't: The Uses of the Dying Virgin in Nineteenth-Century Australian Fiction; S.K.Martin - Prayers to Broken Stones: War and Death in Australia; P.D'Alton - The Legacy of Suicide: The Impact of Suicide on Families; M.Fraser - Death and The Great Australian Disaster; B.Raphael - Is there a British Way of Death?; G.Howarth - Women, Death and In-Memoriam Notices in a Local British Newspaper; S.Adams - The Social Construction of Funerals in Britain; B.Smale - Emotional Reserve and the British Way of Grief; T.Walter - Why was England the First Country to Popularise Cremation?; P.C.Jupp - The Public Construction of AIDS Deaths in the United Kingdom; N.Small - The American Ways of Death; M.R.Leming & G.E.Dickinson - You Never Have to Die! On Mormons, NDEs, Cryonics and the American Immortalist Ethos; M.Kearl - Death, Dying and Bioethics: Current Issues in the USA; R.Bendiksen - Managing the Spectre of Death: The War against Drug Use and AIDS in America; J.A.Levy & D.J.Amick - Grief and Loss of Self; K.Charmaz - Diversity in Universality: Dying, Death and Grief; D.P.Irish - Index
Responsibility: edited by Kathy Charmaz, Glennys Howarth, AllanKellehear.

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