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Death, Ritual, and Bereavement by Ralph A. Houlbrooke is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Originally published in 1989, <i>Death, Ritual and Bereavement </i>examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s. This edited collection focuses on the death-bed, funerals, burials, mourning customs, and the expression of grief. The essays throw fresh light on developments which lie at the roots of present-day tendencies to minimize or conceal the most unpleasant aspects of death, among them the growing participation of doctors in the management of death-beds in the ei
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ralph A. Houlbrooke
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781003005209
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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