ISBN:
9781605989389
,
160598938X
Language:
English
Pages:
266 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus books hardcover edition
Parallel Title:
Reproduction of (manifestation) Schillace, Brandy Death's summer coat
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Death Social aspects
;
Death in popular culture
;
Tod
;
Sterben
;
Vergänglichkeit
;
Einstellung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
A doctor combines her profession along with her love of literature and history in a scholarly work that examines how humans have dealt with death and mortality throughout time and through changing cultures
Abstract:
Dead and knowing it -- Eat your dead (and other advice) -- Through a glass, darkly -- Dying Victorian: memento mori, hair jewellery and crape -- Death at the anatomy theatre -- Death and the doctor -- Death comes to dinner
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index
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