ISBN:
9780868409054
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (416 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia : War, Medicine and the Funeral Business
DDC:
306.90994
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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. Emotional and compelling, award-winning writer Pat Jalland's important book looks at the World Wars and the impact of medicine, with many stories drawn from letters and diaries. She also discusses cancer, euthanasia, palliative care, the funeral business, c
Description / Table of 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 Private and secular grief: Katharine Susannah Prichard; 6 Airmen missing, presumed dead: 'Without emotion, without witness, without farewell'; 7 The 'horrible nightmare' of prisoners of war in the Asia-Pacific; 8 The Second World War and the suppression of sorrow
Description / Table of Contents:
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 racket in human sorrow'?; 14 Overcrowded burial grounds, modern lawn cemeteries and mausolea; 15 Cremation in Australia since 1914; PART V The second cultural shift; 16 The revival of expressive grief; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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