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100			_aHoulbrooke, Ralph.
245			_aDeath, Ritual, and Bereavement _c/ Ralph Houlbrooke.
260			_a, London _b: Routledge _c, 2020.
300			_aviii, 250p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aOriginally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement 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 eighteenth century and the creation of extra-mural cemeteries, followed by the introduction of cremation in the nineteenth century. The volume also underlines the importance of religious belief, in helping the bereaved in past times. The book will appeal to students and academics of family and social history as well as history of medicine, religion and anthropology.
650			_aSocial Science
650			_aCulture and Institution
650			_aDeath Customs
700			_aRalph Houlbrooke.
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