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

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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schillace, Brandy, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Pegasus Books cop. 2017
Edición:First Pegasus books hardcover edition
Materias:
Muerte > Aspectos sociales
Muerte > En la literatura
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009452779708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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