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The Changing Face of Death

Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Peter C. Jupp

    1. Institute of Community Studies, London, UK

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  2. Glennys Howarth

    1. School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter C. Jupp
    Pages 1-17

  3. Expressions of Loss in Early Seventeenth-Century England

    • Clare Gittings
    Pages 19-33

  4. ‘A Kind of Lawful Adultery’: English Attitudes to the Remarriage of Widows, 1550–1800

    • Stephen Collins
    Pages 34-47

  5. The Funeral Trade in Hanoverian England 1714–1760

    • Julian Litten
    Pages 48-61

  6. Memento Mori: The Function and Meaning of Breton Ossuaries 1450–1750

    • Elizabeth Musgrave
    Pages 62-75

  7. The Green Ground

    • John Pinfold
    Pages 76-89

  8. Enon Chapel: No Way for the Dead

    • Peter C. Jupp
    Pages 90-104

  9. The Origins and Progress of Cemetery Establishment in Britain

    • Julie Rugg
    Pages 105-119

  10. Professionalising the Funeral Industry in England 1700–1960

    • Glennys Howarth
    Pages 120-134

  11. Hindu Cremations in Britain

    • Stephen White
    Pages 135-148

  12. Changing English Attitudes to Death in the Two World Wars

    • Alan Wilkinson
    Pages 149-163

  13. The Death of a King: Elvis Presley (1935–1977)

    • Christine King
    Pages 164-176

  14. Actuarial Visions of Death: Life, Death and Chance in the Modern World

    • Lindsay Prior
    Pages 177-193

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 194-202
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The taboo on death is at last breaking down. There is far greater receptivity to informed discussion about death and dying. Dying with dignity is one major issue: euthanasia and the 'natural death movement' are the latest stages in a debate first stimulated by the hospice movement. Media treatment of the bereaved, especially after disasters, has attracted some adverse criticism, yet after the decline of traditional customs of mourning, people seek new models of acceptable behaviour at a time of death. The book argues that attitudes to death and to disposal are culturally formed and examines the factors in the formation and decline of such attitudes by analysing specific issues over four centuries of death.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Community Studies, London, UK

    Peter C. Jupp

  • School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    Glennys Howarth

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