Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History, 1840-1918Pat Jalland, one of Australia's most successful historians, has now turned her attention to Australian subjects. This book is the result of intensive research into where and how people have died in Australia, how they have been buried, mourned and commemmorated, and how social andregional factors have influenced mortality rates and people's consciousness of death and loss. Ways of Death describes how Australians in the past came to terms with death within the constraints and cultural perspectives of their own times. Historians in other western societies have responded to the growing interest and concern with death through books, conferences, and journals, but untilnow there has been little Australian material available to satisfy the increasing interest in the subject, stimulated by events such as debated on euthanasia, new developments in technology, and youth suicides. |
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The Transition from | 13 |
Disease | 33 |
Transmission from | 49 |
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Aboriginal Ada Cambridge Adelaide aged Annie Annie's baby benevolent asylums bereaved body Britain British buried Burke bush burials bushmen Bussell Bussell family cancer Caroline MacLeod Catholic cemetery cent Charlotte Christian death church coffin colonial Australia consolation consumption cremation culture daughter dead Destitute Asylum diary died disease doctor dying England Evangelical Fanny father fever goldfields grief grieving hearse heaven Henry Henry Handel Richardson Henty Hindson hospital ibid immigrants infants inmates Irish John John Springthorpe July Ken Inglis later letters Library of Australia LISWA MN London loved male Mary Melbourne memory ML MSS months mortality mother mourning nineteenth century numbers nursing papers parents passengers patients Plate Port Augusta Queensland religious Report Revd rituals sick South Australia South Wales spiritual Springthorpe suicide Sydney Sydney Morning Herald undertaker Victoria Western Australia widow wife women