The Unknown Country
This is a thorough analysis of the sociology of death and dying in Australia, Britain, and the U.S.A.
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This is a thorough analysis of the sociology of death and dying in Australia, Britain, and the U.S.A. Booknews With nearly daily news conveying AIDS' death toll and debates over assisted-suicide for terminal illness, this is a timely cross-cultural addition to the literature on death and dying. Social scientists, healthcare professionals, clergy, and others probe the nuances in the responses to these issues in diverse cultures: U.S. "homo suburbia," Native American, British, the HIV/AIDS population, Australian soldier, and aborigine. To counter noted earlier academic over-generalizations in this area, ethnic, class, and religious differences are scrutinized in beliefs and images surrounding im/mortality, funeral practices (e.g., the British prefer cremation to burial), grieving rituals, bioethics, and attitudes toward suicide. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceNotes on the Contributors1Death in the Country of Matilda12Secular, Savage and Solitary: Death in Australian Painting153Good Girls Die, Bad Girls Don't: the Uses of the Dying Virgin in Nineteenth-century Australian Fiction314Prayers to Broken Stones: War and Death in Australia455The Legacy of Suicide: the Impact of Suicide on Families586Death and the Great Australian Disaster727Is there a British Way of Death?848Women, Death and In Memoriam Notices in a Local British Newspaper989The Social Construction of Funerals in Britain11310Emotional Reserve and the English Way of Grief12711Why was England the First Country to Popularize Cremation?14112The Public Construction of AIDS Deaths in the United Kingdom15513The American Ways of Death16914You Never Have To Die! On Mormons, NDEs, Cryonics and the American Immortalist Ethos18415Death, Dying and Bioethics: Current Issues in the USA19816Managing the Spectre of Death: the War against Drug Use and AIDS in America21317Grief and Loss of Self22918Diversity in Universality: Dying, Death and Grief242Index257
\ BooknewsWith nearly daily news conveying AIDS' death toll and debates over assisted-suicide for terminal illness, this is a timely cross-cultural addition to the literature on death and dying. Social scientists, healthcare professionals, clergy, and others probe the nuances in the responses to these issues in diverse cultures: U.S. "homo suburbia," Native American, British, the HIV/AIDS population, Australian soldier, and aborigine. To counter noted earlier academic over-generalizations in this area, ethnic, class, and religious differences are scrutinized in beliefs and images surrounding im/mortality, funeral practices (e.g., the British prefer cremation to burial), grieving rituals, bioethics, and attitudes toward suicide. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
