The unknown country : death in Australia, Britain, and the USA
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The unknown country : death in Australia, Britain, and the USA
St. Martin's Press , Macmillan, 1997
- : uk
- : us
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In a strategy deliberately counter to many earlier texts which focus on social aspects of death and dying this book will not examine death through the social prism of US or British culture alone. Drawing only on material from a single society gives readers the misleading impression of a universal experience. As a text in the sociology of death and dying this volume examines culture-specific images and experiences of death in three major western societies - Australia, Britain and the USA.
Table of 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
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