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

描述(由申请人提供)： 在南方，无论是黑人还是白人，死亡是该地区自我概念中常见而重要的一部分，用作家W.J.卡什的话说，因为年轻人和老年人的死亡都是存在的。那么，当公共卫生政策渗透到南方时，发生了什么？公共卫生政策认为，只有在老年或在战场上死亡才是坏事。在一个经历了两次世界大战期间巨大的经济和社会变革的地区，死亡的中心地位以及用来管理与之相关的混乱的仪式发生了什么？ 在伊利诺伊大学出版社的选择下，我的新书项目《刚好足够让他体面地离开》：1918-1945年间南方的死亡管理和公共卫生政策的演变，是一项关于死亡和其他公共卫生问题的管理以及这种管理如何影响地区权力和政治的研究。它还研究了新政实施的新公共卫生政策以及第二次世界大战的军事动员帮助改变了当时被视为美国头号经济和健康问题的地区发生了什么。我将使用一种将历史学、文化人类学和民俗学结合在一起的跨学科方法，并将这种方法应用于公共卫生政策。我工作的意义在于，后者将联邦政府和私人基金会在南方吸取的经验教训应用于第二次世界大战后新兴第三世界的国家建设。

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.