Death's summer coat
Subtitle: what the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living
By: Brandy Schillace
Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781605989389
Subjects: Social aspects; Death; Death in popular culture
Other titles: What the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living
Description: A doctor combines her profession along with her love of literature and history in a scholarly work that examines how humans have dealt with death and mortality throughout time and through changing cultures.
Notes: Originally published: London : Elliott and Thompson, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dead and knowing it; title: Eat your dead (and other advice); title: Through a glass, darkly; title: Dying Victorian: memento mori, hair jewellery and crape; title: Death at the anatomy theatre; title: Death and the doctor; title: Death comes to dinner.