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Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent
- Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955
Engelsk
Bogcover for Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent af Kristine M. McCusker, 9780252087219
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
318
ISBN-13:
9780252087219
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0252087216
Udg. Dato:
20 jun 2023
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 23,3 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
20 jun 2023
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Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent

- Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955
Engelsk
Paperback 2023
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As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent, as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally different in 1955 than it had just fifty years earlier.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
318
ISBN-13:
9780252087219
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0252087216
Udg. Dato:
20 jun 2023
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 23,3 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
20 jun 2023
Forfatter(e):
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