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Death Takes a Holiday, Sort Of
Abstract
In eighteenth-century Europe and England, death was everyone’s inti mate acquaintance, constantly on view. Child mortality rates were hideously high. Crowded living in unsanitary conditions, malnutrition, famine, disease, and accidents ensured life’s unpredictability from day to day. Anyone with a little money then died at home, but the poor, who could not spare a hand from work to tend the sick, sent their relatives to hospitals where atrocious care and rampant infection killed them fast (McManners, 1985, p. 33). The body then went home for washing and laying out, so if you missed the dying you still saw, and most likely handled, the dead.
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“Beginning in the nineteenth century, as new press technologies and media economics encouraged distribution of images of disaster and metropolitan murders, the news media began to sensationalize mayhem and violent deaths (Goldberg, 1998).”
From An Integrative Terror Management Theory Perspective on Media Effects: A Model and 12 Hypotheses for Research (2016) · cites this paper as Goldberg, 1998
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Perloff, R. M. (2016) · Studies in Media and Communication · doi:10.11114/smc.v4i1.1600 · Cited by 15
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- Authors
- Goldberg, V.
- Corresponding author
- Goldberg, Vicki
- Venue
- Why We Watch
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York, NY
- Published
- 1998-10-15
- Pages
- 27-52
- OpenAlex
- W4388259483
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 10 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 4 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 4.54
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Emotions Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › History of Science and Medicine
- Keywords
- death, eighteenth-century Europe, eighteenth-century England, child mortality, hospitals, poor relief, funerary practices, history of medicine
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