Purified by fire : a history of cremation in America / Stephen Prothero.

  • Prothero, Stephen R.
Date:
[2001], ©2001
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Publication/Creation

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001], ©2001.

Physical description

xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes index and bibliography: p. 253-261.

Contents

The cremation of Baron De Palm -- Sanitary reform -- Resurrection and the resurrectionists -- The business of cremation -- The memorial idea -- Consumers' last rites -- Contemporary ways of cremation.

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    History of Medicine
    JIC.6
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  • 0520208161