Purified by fire : a history of cremation in America / Stephen Prothero.
- Prothero, Stephen R.
- Date:
- [2001], ©2001
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001], ©2001.
Physical description
xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
The cremation of Baron De Palm -- Sanitary reform -- Resurrection and the resurrectionists -- The business of cremation -- The memorial idea -- Consumers' last rites -- Contemporary ways of cremation.
Bibliographic information
Includes index and bibliography: p. 253-261.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJIC.6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 0520208161