The secularization of death in Scotland, 1815-1900 : how the funeral industry displaced the church as custodian of the dead (a study of private cemeteries, public crematoria, and bereavement practices in Edinburgh) /
Smith, Michael.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Peter C. Jupp -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Edinburgh -- living and dying in a Scottish city -- The kirk and the funeral industry -- The kirk and the burden of death -- Challenging the kirk : the cemetery companies and the state -- "The doctors of grief" : funeral undertaking in nineteenth-century Edinburgh -- The public face of death -- Patterns of mourning -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Undertakers and undertaking
Death care industry