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Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some ""traditions"" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however,

Death. --- Death --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Folklore --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy

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Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion.

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With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, commemoration, and high infant mortality rates. The 2005 book draws on a broad range of sources to analyse the feelings and behaviours of the labouring poor, using not only personal testimony but also fiction, journalism, and official reports. It concludes that poor people did not only use spoken or written words to express their grief, but also complex symbols, actions and, significantly, silence. This book will be an invaluable contribution to an important and neglected area of social and cultural history.

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Cancer --- Terminal care --- Terminal Care --- Palliative Care --- Neoplasms --- Quality Assurance, Health Care --- Diseases --- Patient Care --- Quality of Health Care --- Therapeutics --- Health Services Administration --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Oncology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Palliative treatment --- Standards --- Standards. --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Care and treatment --- Medical care --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death --- Tumors

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The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with 6,954 entries from artisan, merchant and aristocratic classes. This study is the first to comprehensively analyse the unpublished Book of Donors manuscript and show the types and patterns of gifts made to the cathedral. It also compares these gift entries with those in earlier obituary records kept by the cathedral canons, as well as other medieval obituary notices kept by parish churches and convents in Strasbourg. Analysis of the Book of Donors notes the increase of personal deta

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Catholic Church --- Rites et cérémonies --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Eglise catholique --- Strasbourg (France) --- Church history. --- Social life and customs --- Histoire religieuse --- Moeurs et coutumes --- History --- Social life and customs. --- Funérailles --- Rites et cérémonies --- Catholic Church. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Philosophy --- Strateburgum (France) --- Stratisburgium (France) --- Istrāsbūrg (France) --- Strassburg (Germany) --- Strasbourg (Free imperial city) --- Strossburi (France) --- Strossburig (France)