Learning Resources Division: Mortuary Science: Books

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If you want to browse the stacks for books related to mortuary science, you can find titles related to this topic in the call number sections below. If you need assistance finding a topic or a specific title, just ask a reference librarian for help.

GT 2400-3390.5 - Customs Relative to Private Life, Including Funeral Customs

HQ 1073-1073.5 - Thanatology, Death, Dying

RA 619-637 - Disposal of the Dead, Undertaking, Burial, Cremation, Cemeteries

Recommended Books

Death and Dying by John F. Szabo
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2010-01-16
This book provides more than 2,200 citations of monographs on the science and study of death and dying. Among the areas this volume addresses are the psychological, philosophical, and attitudinal aspects; coping and dealing with the burdens of caregiving and working in the helping professions; instructional and educational topics for practitioners, primarily health care providers; cultural differences in bereavement rituals; and grief, mourning, and loss. In addition, notable titles on or relating to death and dying in popular culture, death themes in literature, methods of death, or specific ethical, policy, or public issues are also included when they contribute important information to subject areas on which the book focuses.
Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice, Fifth Edition by Robert G. Mayer
Call Number: RA623 .M385 2012
Publication Date: 2011-12-22
This trusted classic covers the long history of embalming, explains embalming theory, and describes present practice, including the latest trends. Special attention has been given to the creation of a safe working environment - from the standpoint of ergonomics, personal hygiene, and the use of embalming chemicals.
Funeral Directing and Funeral Service Management by Ralph L. Klicker
Call Number: HD9999.U53 K6 2008
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Funeral Service Exam Secrets Study Guide: Funeral Service Test Review for the Funeral Service National Board Exam by Mometrix Funeral Director Certification Test Team (Editor)
Call Number: RA622.8 .F86 2016
Publication Date: 2015-02-25
Funeral Service Exam Secrets helps you ace the Funeral Service National Board Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Includes practice test questions.
The History of American Funeral Directing by Robert W. Habenstein (Contribution by)
Call Number: GT3150 .H3 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-30
A lengthy history of funeral practices, beginning with pagan influences and ending with modern-day thinking and approaches.
Interacting with the Dead by Sloan R. Williams (Editor); Gordon F. M. Rakita (Editor); Jane Buikstra (Editor); Lane A. Beck (Editor)
Call Number: CC79.5.H85 I58 2008
Publication Date: 2008-04-20
This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining recent and ongoing concerns in anthropology, it takes the study of mortuary archaeology to a new and significant level of interdisciplinary research. Drawing inspiration from ethnohistory, ethnography, bioarchaeology, and sociocultural anthropology, the authors focus on themes of gender, ancestorhood, ritual violence, individual agency, space and placement, and extended and secondary mortuary ceremonialism.
Parting Ways: New Rituals and Celebrations of Life's Passing by Denise Carson
Call Number: BF789.D4 C32 2011
Publication Date: 2011-04-10
This text explores the emergence of new end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed. The author also investigates a variety of solutions--living funerals, oral ethical wills, and home funerals--that revise the impending death scenario. Integrating the profoundly personal with the objectively historical, the book calls for an "end of life revolution" to change the way of death in America.
Pathology and Microbiology for Mortuary Science by David F. Mullins
Call Number: Reserve ; RB112 .M856 2006
Publication Date: 2005-09-06
A comprehensive book for the study of pathology and microbiology written for mortuary science students, as a resource for educators, and as a reference for funeral directors and embalmers. The book is designed around the current American Board of Funeral Service Education's Curriculum Outlines for pathology and microbiology.
The Psychosocial Aspects of Death and Dying by John Canine
Call Number: HQ1073 .C35 1996
Publication Date: 1996-10-21
This book provides an insightful and concise approach to the psychosocial process of death and bereavement.
Restorative Art and Science by Ralph L. Klicker
Call Number: RA623.5 .K55 R48 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death by Suzanne E. Smith
Call Number: GT3203 .S75 2010
Publication Date: 2010-02-25
From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "homegoing" ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few Black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not beholden to the local white power structure. Most important, their financial freedom gave them the ability to support the struggle for civil rights and, indeed, to serve the living as well as bury the dead. During the Jim Crow era, black funeral directors relied on racial segregation to secure their foothold in America's capitalist marketplace. With the dawning of the civil rights age, these entrepreneurs were drawn into the movement to integrate American society, but were also uncertain how racial integration would affect their business success. From the beginning, this tension between personal gain and community service shaped the history of African American funeral directing. The book offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom.
Types of Funeral Services and Ceremonies by National Association of Colleges of Mortuary Science
Call Number: BL619.T97 F86 2015
Publication Date: 2016-04-10
An examination of various funeral services and ceremonies, including those of Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Baha'i', military, and fraternal organization communities.
Winning Ways: the Funeral Profession's Guide to Human Relations by Todd W. Van Beck
Call Number: RA622 .V36 1999
Publication Date: 1998-08-04
Written for the funeral service industry by a funeral service professional, this unique book teaches effective methods of interacting with people.

E-books

E-books are books, too! They just happen to be available to you online. Just like any of the library's databases, these can be used from anywhere with an Internet connection. When prompted, all you have to do is log-in using your UDC credentials.

Many e-books may be downloaded (chapter-by-chapter or the entire book) and some can even be printed. If you check out an e-book, it will "disappear" from your library account on its due date.

E-books are available in many of the library's databases. You can try a few of them in the list below:

Books In Print
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