Death in war and peace : loss and grief in England, 1914-1970 / Pat Jalland.
- Jalland, Patricia.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Description
The history of death is a vital part of human history, and a study of dying and grief takes us to the heart of any culture. Since the First World War there has been a tendency to privatize death, and to minimize the expression of grief and the rituals of mourning. Jalland explores the nature and scope of this cultural shift.
Publication/Creation
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical description
xii, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contributors
Contents
Death, the Great War, and the influenza pandemic -- Violet Cecil and communities in mourning -- The Bickersteths' sacred pilgrimages to the Great War cemeteries, 1919-1931 -- Death, disasters, and rituals among the northern working classes, 1919-1939 -- Sir Sydney Cockerell: cremation and the modern way of death in England -- The people's war: death in the Blitz -- Missing airmen and families in anguish: 'there could be no mourning' -- Experiences of wartime grief -- Hidden death: medicine and care of the dying, 1945-1970 -- Widowhood, grief, and old age, 1945-1963 -- Gorer's map of death: declining rituals and prolonged grief, 1963 -- Observing grief: C.S. Lewis and C.M. Parkes -- Epilogue: change and continuity since the 1970s.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-303) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJIB.41.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780199265510
- 0199265518