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German History (29)2 2011
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Drawing on women's visual responses to the First World War, this article examines female mourning in wartime Germany. The unprecedented death toll on the battlefronts, military burial practices and the physical distance from the remains of the war dead disrupted traditional rituals o...
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PMID: 21961193
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Annals of Internal Medicine (153)7 2010
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Since 2006, Britain has been fighting an intense military campaign in Helmand in which over 200 soldiers have been killed. The article examines the way in which twentieth-century commemorative rituals, which mourned the sacrifice of anonymous individual soldiers for the nation, have been superseded...
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PMID: 20377594
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British Journal of Nursing (19)15 2010
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This August marks the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale, who died at 2 o'clock on Saturday 13 August 1910 at her home, 10 South Street, Park Lane, London. The following are some snippets which appeared in the BJN of the 20 and 27 August 1910. It was not until the announcement of her de...
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PMID: 20966869
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The curative focus of critical care and the advanced technology may overshadow the fact that critically ill patients die. Research investigating critical care nurses involvement with death has predominately focused on experienced nurses, but these findings may not be applicable to novice nurses. Inc...
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PMID: 21226411
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Epidemiology and Infection (137)12 2009
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We recommend parallel approaches to improve integration of Irish travellers within routine health services whilst offering targeted interventions to increase vaccine uptake in this marginalized community....
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PMID: 19470194
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Death Studies (33)10 2009
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This study considered the nature of continuing bonds with deceased relatives in a sample of Pakistani Muslims living in the United Kingdom. Ten participants were interviewed following a cultural psychology approach and transcripts were analyzed using grounded theory methodology. Dreaming, talking wi...
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PMID: 19877365
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Death Studies (33)9 2009
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As one component of an ongoing project to develop resources for bereaved children and families, funeral directors were surveyed about their experiences and practices with bereaved children. About one-third of respondents reported that they provided services specifically for bereaved children. Of the...
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PMID: 19798821
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Acta bio-medica de L'Ateneo parmense : organo della Societa di medicina e scienze naturali di Parma (80)1 2009
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We briefly describe the history of facial reconstruction in the deceased, starting from the skull. Facial reconstruction has passed through many phases and has been variously motivated, from religion and ancestor worship, through anthropology, to the identification of lost persons for forensic purpo...
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PMID: 19705614
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Disco funerals were an important place for young people to hang out; they increased the opportunities to meet and engage in (risky) sexual activities. Many adolescents reported having casual sex on these occasions, sometimes with multiple partners, and mostly without condoms. Some girls were forced...
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PMID: 19165086
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Nutricion hospitalaria : organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Nutricion Parenteral y Enteral (24)6 2009
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It was observed that the oldest population refuses to talk about their own death. The vast majority of the polled people would want to die at home with their partner's cares. Half of the people want to be feed artificially until the end of their days....
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PMID: 20049378
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This article outlines the procedures following a death and examines funeral arrangements, including the different types of burial and the cremation process.
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PMID: 19326624
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We found that the involvement of nurses in the care process is influenced by their predominant perspective on it: the procedural, action-focused perspective, from which good practical organization of the care process is essential; or the existential-interpretative perspective, from which it is impor...
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PMID: 20131583
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The experiences of sixteen families were obtained. The families expressed that they found the experience physically, practically and emotionally supportive, as they were able to continue to act as the child's parents, to choose and control how their child's care occurred, to say their farewells at t...
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PMID: 19104474
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We identified genetic kinship among the individuals. A direct child-parent relationship was detected in one burial, providing the oldest molecular genetic evidence of a nuclear family. Strontium isotope analyses point to different origins for males and children versus females. By this approach, we g...
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PMID: 19015520
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the review of midwifery textbooks suggests that an ideological shift has taken place in relation to perinatal loss. The changing demographic trends, and the shift of birth and death from home to hospital, have altered the expectations and experiences of parents and professionals. Midwifery textbooks...
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PMID: 17241719
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New Zealand Medical Journal (121)1274 2008
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This paper aims to inform the reader about the procedures of, and the need to run, a bequest programme for the teaching of clinical anatomy. It provides an overview of how the programme operates, and why the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealan...
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PMID: 18535648
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Mixtec nobles are depicted in codices and other proto-historic documentation taking part in funerary rites involving cremation. The time depth for this practice was unknown, but excavations at the early village site of Tayata, in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, recovered undisturbed cremation...
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PMID: 18391213
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Artifacts of cold-hammered native gold have been discovered in a secure and undisturbed Terminal Archaic burial context at Jiskairumoko, a multicomponent Late Archaic-Early Formative period site in the southwestern Lake Titicaca basin, Peru. The burial dates to 3776 to 3690 carbon-14 years before th...
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PMID: 18378903
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There is a significant cultural gap between westernized Australian and Aboriginal cultures, especially in regards to care of the dying. Thus, cultural sensitivity and respect, coupled with knowledge of the traditions and practices in respect of the death and dying, are of utmost importance in commun...
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PMID: 18190485
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The inquisition into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales has highlighted the role of the coroner in the investigation of the cause of death in England and Wales. The coroner provides an important safeguard to an administrative system for the registration of deaths in the United Kingdom that relies...
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PMID: 18414245
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We report a large outbreak of at least 650 estimated patients in Udomxay (northern Laos) in June 2005. Trichinella ELISA assays on serum from 133 patients and Western blot assays on 16 patients were positive in 67.6% and 81.2%, respectively. No deaths were recorded. Consumption of uncooked or fermen...
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PMID: 18187783
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The purpose of this article is to inform the reader that a commonality in grief and bereavement exists even though it is highly individualized. Health care providers and consumers of health care should realize and understand the potential for bias and miscommunication when there is delivery of care...
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PMID: 18649443
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We present here 2 cases for which our Hospice assisted the families with a home viewing. These were indigent people who could not afford embalming or the additional cost of a viewing in a parlor and who, without this opportunity, would have not had time to get together and mourn and celebrate life a...
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PMID: 18559967
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We need to place them in a longue durée history of death and dissection and to pay close attention to the city's political geography as it was transformed into a major imperial capital. The tolerant stance of the Roman Catholic Church, strong links to Southern Europe, and the weak position of indiv...
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PMID: 18791297
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Caring for a patient who has died is the final act that a nurse will carry out for a patient. Traditionally steeped in ritual, and often referred to as last offices, this act can achieve closure for the nurse and the family. Awareness of families' needs and subsequent support is essential. This arti...
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PMID: 18777836
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This article outlines the steps involved in preparing the patient after death--known as last offices. It addresses legal and non-legal issues, religious considerations, hygiene care and aftercare for the family.
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PMID: 18429457
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The ceremonies surrounding death are extremely important to Aboriginal peoples and take precedence over all other activities. This article presents research findings on Aboriginal mortuary ceremonies in the hope that it will be useful for non-indigenous nurses working with Aboriginal peoples. A qual...
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PMID: 19112922
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Death Studies (32)3 2008
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A longitudinal study was conducted among bereaved parents to examine the relationship between the circumstances surrounding the death of their child and psychological adjustment. Two hundred nineteen couples participated at 6, 13, and 20 months post-loss. Examination was made of two categories of fa...
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PMID: 18705169
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We need to better understand the cognitive processes underlying suicidal thinking for improved treatment development. Cognitive psychology indicates that mental imagery can be causal in determining future behavior, yet the occurrence of suicide-related imagery has not previously been investigated. I...
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PMID: 18037390
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This ethnographic study aims to identify and describe how a group of elderly African people in South Africa experience their daily life and related concerns and interests. Data were collected through group interviews involving 16 elderly persons and complementary field observations. The data were an...
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PMID: 17616794
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The purpose of this qualitative study, using a modified grounded theory approach, was to investigate how palliative care nurses care for people from cultural backgrounds other than their own. Ten palliative care nurses were interviewed. The semi-structured interviews were tape-recorded and transcrib...
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PMID: 18399383
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This paper examines what kinds of bodies were utilized as cadavers in the dissections for medical studies in the Edo period and how researchers treated them, through analyzing the memorial addresses delivered at the Buddhist altar by researchers. At present, 5 texts are known as memorial addresses f...
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PMID: 18548872
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The key impacts of death on households are funerals and the loss of income. Funerals often cost up to 7 months of income. Nearly all households in the sample attempt to cover such costs by holding a portfolio of funeral insurance. Despite these efforts to insure against funeral costs, 61% of househo...
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PMID: 18040168
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An outbreak of Salmonella enterica serovar Othmarschen at a funeral service in Guri-si, South Korea.
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Academic Medicine (82)10 2007
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America's medical schools have long used human cadavers to teach anatomy, but acquiring adequate numbers of bodies for dissection has always been a challenge. Physicians and medical students of the 18th and 19th centuries often resorted to robbing graves, and this history has been extensively examin...
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PMID: 17895666
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This study explores Yemenite-Jewish wailing as an example of how a traditional community copes with bereavement in contemporary Israel. Observations of wailing events and interviews with Yemenite-Israeli wailers and mourners are analyzed in order to understand the respondents' perceptions of wailing...
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PMID: 17587475
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Postgraduate Medical Journal (83)984 2007
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This paper summarises the common modalities that are available for researching ancient medicine and disease as well as explaining how some of these sources have survived to modern day. These are explained under the three broad headings of palaeopathology, artefacts, and texts. The descriptions use a...
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PMID: 17916875
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New England Journal of Medicine (357)13 2007
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Annali di Chimica (97)9 2007
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A study to obtain more knowledge on funeral set in Greek age, (5th Century, b.c.) was carried out on thirteen ancient unguentaria, small vessels used as containers of balms or ointments, founded in two different Sicilian necropolis: Adranon and Hymera. Every find was subjected to three extractions b...
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PMID: 17970301
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Death Studies (31)7 2007
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A qualitative, collective case study explores bereavement rituals in the Muscogee Creek tribe. Data from interviews with 27 participants, all adult members of the tribe, revealed consensus on participation in certain bereavement rituals. Common rituals included: (a) conducting a wake service the nig...
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PMID: 17849603
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Revue d histoire de la pharmacie (55)354 2007
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The epitaph of his gravestone on the Saint Helen cemetery of Strasbourg indicates the precise dates of beginning (21 August 1816) and tragic end (19 August 1856) of the eventfull but short live of the renowned chemist Charles Gerhardt. Accompagned by a Foundation, unfortunately disappeared during th...
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PMID: 18175525
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