Death's summer coat : what the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living / Brandy Schillace.
By: Schillace, Brandy [author.].
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, [2015]Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition.Description: 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781605989389.Other title: What the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living.Subject(s): Death -- Social aspects | Death in popular culture | Death in popular culture | Death -- Social aspects | Tod | Sterblichkeit | Einstellung | Sterben | VergänglichkeitGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HQ1073 .S35 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000010708 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
Introduction: meet the new (old) death -- 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 -- Epilogue: beginning at the end -- Notes -- Index.
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.