Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-century Australia: War, Medicine, and the Funeral BusinessUNSW Press, 2006 - 409 páginas 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--characterized 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, cemeteries and cremation. |
Índice
Introduction The world we have lost | 1 |
Death denial and silent grief | 15 |
The two world wars and denial of death | 37 |
The Great War Heroic deaths and distant graves | 39 |
The silent heartache of the Great War | 73 |
Private and secular grief Katharine susannah Prichard | 104 |
Airmen missing presumed dead Without emotion without witness without farewell | 125 |
The horrible nightmare of prisoners of war in the AsiaPacific | 150 |
Euthanasia and the doctors | 233 |
Palliative care and the hospice movement | 256 |
The funeral business cemeteries and cremation | 277 |
The funeral business in Australia A racket in human sorrow? | 279 |
Overcrowded burial grounds modern lawn cemeteries and mausolea | 302 |
Cremation in Australia since 1914 | 326 |
The second cultural shift | 347 |
The revival of expressive grief | 349 |
The Second World War and the suppression of sorrow | 169 |
Medicine and dying in the twentieth century | 189 |
The medicalisation of death | 191 |
Kylie Tennant and the war against cancer | 206 |
Notes | 371 |
Select Bibliography | 390 |
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