Death's summer coat : what the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living / Brandy Schillace

Author: Schillace, Brandy
Additional Titles: What the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.
Copyright Date: ©2015
Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Description: 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

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.

Summary

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.

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ISBN

9781605989389
160598938X

Other Edition

Reproduction of (manifestation): Schillace, Brandy. London : Elliott and Thompson, 2015

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.

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