"Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent": The Management of Death and the Evolution o

“足以让他体面地离开”：死亡的管理和进化

• 批准号: 7692441
• 负责人: Kristine Marie McCusker
• 金额: $ 6.52万
• 依托单位: MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2011-09-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7692441
• 关键词: Age; American; Americas; Archives; Award; Back; Books; Boxing; Businesses; Capital; Cause of Death; Cemetery; Cessation of life; Collection; Conceptions; Cultural Anthropology; Depressed mood; Documentation; Economics; Elderly; Emotional; Employee Strikes; Epidemic; Evolution; Federal Government; Feeling hopeless; Financial Support; Florida; Folklore; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Policy; Home environment; Hospitals; Housing; Illinois; India; Infant Mortality; Internet; Interview; Knowledge; Learning; Left; Librarians; Libraries; Life; Louisiana; Love; Military Personnel; Mind; Mississippi; Modeling; Modernization; Motivation; Mourning; Museums; New York; North Carolina; Oral; Paper; Participant; Perception; Plant Roots; Policies; Polishes; Politics; Poverty; Public Health; Publishing; Recording of previous events; Records; Research; Research Design; Research Ethics Committees; Research Infrastructure; Research Support; Rest; Ritual compulsion; Schools; Side; Slave; Social Change; Solutions; Source; South Carolina; System; Tennessee; Texas; Time; Transcript; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; United States National Library of Medicine; Universities; Variant; Virginia; Visit; War; Work; World Health Organization; World War II; Writing; authority; cost; disorder control; end of life; experience; flexibility; forging; graduate student; health economics; health organization; improved; influenza epidemic; interdisciplinary approach; loved ones; meetings; men; musician; programs; segregation; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the South, whether one was black or white, death was a common and important part of the region's self-conception, its "mind," in writer W.J. Cash's words, since the death of young and old alike was ever present. What happened, then, when public health policy, which assumed that dying was bad except in old age or on a battlefield, infiltrated the South? What happened to the centrality of death and the rituals used to manage the chaos associated with it in a region that witnessed a tremendous economic and social transformation during the interwar era? My new book project, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent": The Management of Death and the Evolution of Public Health Policy in the South, 1918-1945, under option by the University of Illinois Press, is a study of the management of death and other public health issues and how that management influenced regional power and politics. It is also a study of what happened when new public health policies levied by the New Deal and the military mobilization for World War II helped transform a region considered at the time to be the nation's number one economic and health problem. I will use an interdisciplinary approach that marries together history, cultural anthropology, and folklore and apply this approach to public health policy. The significance of my work lies in the latter application of lessons learned in the South by the Federal Government and private foundations to post-World War II nation-building in the emergent Third World.

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