Death In Victorian Toronto, 1850-1899

Indigenous life expectancy in Sweden 1850-1899: Towards a long and healthy life?

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that the health transition and demographical pattern of indigenous people has followed a different path compared to non-indigenous groups living in the same area with higher mortality rates and shortened life expectancy at birth. OBJECTIVE This paper draws attention to the development of life expectancy for the Sami and nonSami during the colonization era ...

The changing presentation of death in the obituary, 1899-1999.

Obituaries from the New York Times are examined at three points to illuminate changing conceptions of death. The findings are twofold. Changes in the obituary demonstrate how the locus of social control over death has shifted from nature and God, to medicine and most recently to the individual. Additionally, it is shown that descriptions of biophysical aspects of the dying process are marginali...

Toronto's metaphysicians: the social gospel and medical professionalization in Victorian Toronto.

Linguistic Devices Coping with Death in Victorian Obituaries

Given that obituaries constitute a breeding ground for the proliferation of different means of coping with death, it is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of the main linguistic devices used in a sample of Irish Victorian death notices and analyse to what extent such devices have a social purpose. In this regard, I consider the obituary as a socially oriented practice whose main fu...

Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief.