Corpse care : ethics for tending the dead /

Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns. Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consc...

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Main Authors: Sanders, Cody J. (Author), Parsons, Mikeal C. 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2023]
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Table of Contents:
  • The corpse : from antiquity to antebellum garden cemeteries
  • The corpse : from the Civil War to the industrialization of deathcare
  • The corpse in the web of life : a practical theology
  • The corpse to come : imagining deathcare anew.