Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction : 1963 -- 1. From house calls to funeral homes : changing relations between the living and the dead -- 2. Explaining the American funeral, 1918-1963 -- 3. Good grief! Jessica Mitford makes The New York times bestseller list -- 4. Keeping the dead in place : old and new patterns of consumption -- 5. Final frontiers : into the twenty-first century -- Epilogue : 9/11 -- Notes -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.