Denied funeral rituals in pandemic times; Funeral workers’ experience with ‘contagious corpses’
The extremely high death rates in northern Italy during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic called for exceptional rules and suspension of funeral practices and burial rites. Additionally, forms of collective burial, typical of a wartime scenario, and mechanical methods and timing were reintroduced into the...
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Manchester University Press
2023-04-01
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| Series: | Human Remains and Violence |
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| Online Access: | https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/journals/hrv/9/1/article-p91.xml |