Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia [electronic resource] : War, Medicine and the...
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia [electronic resource] : War, Medicine and the...
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia [electronic resource] : War, Medicine and the Funeral Business.
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Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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English
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1 online resource (416 p.)
Contents
CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; PART I A transformed culture of death and grief; 1 Introduction: The world we have lost; 2 'Death denial' and silent grief; PART II The two World Wars and denial of death; 3 The Great War: Heroic deaths and distant graves; 4 The 'silent heartache' of the Great War; 5 Priva...
PART III Medicine and dying in the twentieth century9 The medicalisation of death; 10 Kylie Tennant and the war against cancer; 11 Euthanasia and the doctors; 12 Palliative care and the hospice movement; PART IV The funeral business, cemeteries and cremation; 13 The funeral business in Australia: 'A...
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Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2006.
Date Published
2006.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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Death and bereavement come to us all. This is the first book to help us explain and understand their history across twentieth-century Australia. It draws aside the veil of silence that surrounded death for fifty years after 1918 - characterised by denial, minimal ritual and private sorrow - and explores the dramatic changes since the 1980s. Emotion...
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Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia [electronic resource] : War, Medicine and the Funeral Business.
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74Vvx3QZDb8Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvx3QZDb8Z
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9780868404813
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306.90994
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991016746369702626
