A social history of dying
Kellehear, Allan, (1955-.)

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  • A social history of dying
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    Title/Author: A social history of dying/ Allan Kellehear.
    Author: Kellehear, Allan,
    Published: Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press, : 2007.,
    Description: x, 297 p.
    [NT 15003449]: The stone age -- The dawn of mortal awareness -- Otherworld journeys: death as dying -- The first challenge : anticipating death -- The pastoral age -- The emergence of sedentism -- The birth of the good death -- The second challenge: preparing for death -- The age of the city -- The rise and spread of cities -- The birth of the well- managed death -- The third challenge: taming death -- The cosmopolitan age -- The exponential rise of modernity -- The birth of the shameful death -- The final challenge: timing death.
    Subject: Death - Social aspects -
    Online resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481352Access by subscription
    ISBN: 0521694299 (pbk.)
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