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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Body procurement at The University of Sydney has a long history. Anatomy legislation (1881 Anatomy Act) modeled on the British Anatomy Act 1832 legalized procurement of unclaimed bodies from public institutions for anatomical dissection at licensed Schools of Anatomy, effectively conferring the University of Sydney an exclusive license until ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Modernity in medicine and hygiene at the end of the 19th century: the example of cremation
Journal of Public Health Research, 2012 Medicine in the second half of the nineteenth century takes on some characteristics of modernity. These characteristics are worthy of our attention because they help us to understand better some of the current problems of hygiene and public health.
Alessandro Porro +4 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring +8 more
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Into the caves, into the waters
Ars & Humanitas, 2023 People’s ambiguous, ambivalent, non-rational and nonsensical relation towards death is a constant feature throughout the human past. The obvious way of dealing with such a stressful moment in personal and community life is guided by tradition – the well-
Peter Turk
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková +4 more
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British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background People with learning disabilities should be involved in conversations around funerals. Conversation‐starter pictures were developed to support funeral conversations between people with a learning disability and support staff.
Andrea Bruun, Rebecca Anderson‐Kittow
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Early medieval cremation burials in Atlantic northern Britain
This discussion outlines the evidence for cremation burials in Atlantic northern Britain, c. 400–1100 CE. It works through the variety of evidence (absolute dating, artefacts, stratigraphy) and touches on the issues associated with each, before moving ...
O Riagain, Russell Martin
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, 2023 I dag kan ein fritt velje mellom kremasjon og jordgravlegging, men for ca. 125 år sidan var kremasjon, då kalla ligbrænding, ulovleg i Noreg. Før dette hadde likbrenning vore ulovleg i nesten 1000 år. Denne oppgåva spør kvifor likbrenning kom tilbake, og
Myklebust, Marie Moe
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