The Unknown Country: Death in Australia, Britain and the USA

Abstract

Preface - Notes on Contributors - Death in the Country of Matilda A.Kellehear & I.Anderson - Secular, Savage and Solitary: Death in Australian Painting L.Fitzpatrick - Good Girls Die, Bad Girls Don't: The Uses of the Dying Virgin in Nineteenth-Century Australian Fiction S.K.Martin - Prayers to Broken Stones: War and Death in Australia P.D'Alton - The Legacy of Suicide: The Impact of Suicide on Families M.Fraser - Death and The Great Australian Disaster B.Raphael - Is there a British Way of Death? G.Howarth - Women, Death and In-Memoriam Notices in a Local British Newspaper S.Adams - The Social Construction of Funerals in Britain B.Smale - Emotional Reserve and the British Way of Grief T.Walter - Why was England the First Country to Popularise Cremation? P.C.Jupp - The Public Construction of AIDS Deaths in the United Kingdom N.Small - The American Ways of Death M.R.Leming & G.E.Dickinson - You Never Have to Die! On Mormons, NDEs, Cryonics and the American Immortalist Ethos M.Kearl - Death, Dying and Bioethics: Current Issues in the USA R.Bendiksen - Managing the Spectre of Death: The War against Drug Use and AIDS in America J.A.Levy & D.J.Amick - Grief and Loss of Self K.Charmaz - Diversity in Universality: Dying, Death and Grief D.P.Irish - Index