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Funeral Service Bibliography & Resources

·     This is a comprehensive resource of written material relating to many aspects of funeral service. It includes mainly UK published books, although a number of American texts have also been listed. Many are obtainable from the National Funeral Directors Association whose address appears in Section 7.

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Section 1 - Funeral service (including resource books)

Section 2 - Reports

Section 3 - Publications on bereavement

Section 4 - Other related texts (including historical)

Section 5 - Embalming

Section 6 - Periodicals

Section1 - Publications on aspects of funeral service

Dealing With Death - Practices and Procedures

J Green & M Green Published by Chapman Hall (1992)

Exhumation Handbook (Institute of Burial & Cremation Administration)

P Mitchell (1998)

Available from Copytrend Ltd, 26 Avenue Road, Grantham Lincs NG31 6TH Tel: 01476 578111

Davies’ Law of Burial, Cremation and Exhumation

DA Smale 6th Edition Published by Shaw & Sons (1993)

Coroner’s Courts: a guide to law and practice

C Dorries Published by John Wiley & Sons (1999)

British Crematoria in Public Profile

D Davies Published by The Cremation Society of Great Britain (1995)

The Funeral Director's Practice Management Handbook

HC Raether (Ed) Published by Prentice Hall (1989)

Funerals and how to improve them

T Walter Published by Hodder and Stoughton (1990)

Funeral Home Customer Service: Creating Exceptional Experiences for Today’s Families

AD Woolfelt Published by Companion Press (USA) (2001)

Winning Ways: The Funeral Profession’s Guide to Human Relations

TW Van Beck Published by Appleton & Lange (USA) (1999)

Resources

The Manual of Funeral Directing (1996 edition)

Available from The National Association of Funeral Directors 618 Warwick Road Solihiull West Midlands B91 1AA

Funerals: A guide – prayers, hymns and readings

J Bentley, A Best & J Hunt Published by Hodder & Stoughton (1994)

The CBA Directory of Cemeteries & Crematoria in the UK (1997)

Published by and available from The Confederation of Burial authorities The Gatehouse Kew Meadow Path Richmond TW9 4EN (Tel: 020 8392 9487)

The Directory of Crematoria

Published annually by The Cremation Society of Great Britain

Brecon House 2nd floor 16/16a Albion Place Maidstone Kent ME14 5DX

(Tel: 01622 686698)

The Natural Death Handbook

N Albery & S Wienrich 3rd Edition Published by Rider (2000)

Funerals without God - A practical Guide to Non-Religious Funerals

J Wynne Wilson 4th Edition Published by The British Humanist Association 14 Lamb’s Conduit Passage London WC1R 4RH (1995)

The Dead Citizens Charter: The Complete edition

Published by the National Funerals College (1998)

Charter for the Bereaved

Published by the Institute of Burial and Cremation Administration (1996)

Section 2 - Reports

Death Certification and Coroners

Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Cmnd 4810 (1971)

Funeral Charges

Price Commission Report no22 (1977)

A survey of Funeral Arrangements

K Foster Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (1987)

Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited and House of Fraser PLC: A report on the acquisition by the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited of the Scottish funerals business of House of Fraser PLC

Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Cm229 (1987)

Families, Funerals and Finances: A study of funeral expenses and how they are paid

PJ Hennessy Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (1980)

Funerals: A report

Office of Fair Trading (1989)

The Management of Old Cemetery Land – Now and the Future

J Dunk & J Rugg Published by Shaw & sons (1994)

Reusing Old Graves: A report on Popular British Attitudes

D Davies & A Shaw Published by Shaw & Sons (1995)

Service Corporation International and Plantsbrook Group Plc: A report on the merger situation

Monopolies and Mergers Commission Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Cmnd 2880 (1995)

Pre-Paid Funeral Plans: A report by the Office of Fair Trading

Office of Fair Trading (1995)

Consultation of the London Planning Advisory Committee’s proposals for dealing with London’s impending shortage of burial space

Published by London Planning Advisory Committee (1997)

Funerals: A report of the OFT inquiry into the funerals industry

Office of Fair Trading (2001)

Cemeteries: Report and Proceedings of the Committee, together with the Minutes of evidence taken before the Environment Sub-committee

Published by the Stationery Office Limited (2001)

Section 3 - Bereavement

Letting Go: Caring for the dying and bereaved

I Ainsworth-Smith & P Speck Published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1982)

The Denial of Death

E Becker Published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster (1997)

Bereavement at Work: A practical Guide

D Charles-Edwards Published by Duckworth (2000)

The Psychosocial Aspects of Death and Dying

JD Canine Published by Appleton & Lange (USA) (1996) 

(Available in UK from Chapman & Hall)

Death, Dying and Bereavement

D Dickenson, M Johnson & J Samson Katz (Eds 2nd Ed) Published by Open University/Sage (2000)

Living with Grief after Sudden Loss: Suicide; homicide; accident; heart attack and stroke

KJ Doka (Ed) Published by Taylor & Francis (1996)

Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual

J Hockey, J Katz & N Small (Eds) Published by the Open University Press (2001)

Endings: A sociology of Death and Dying

MC Kearl Published by Oxford University Press (1989)

Understanding Dying, Death and Bereavement

MR Leming & GE Dickinson 3rd Edition Harcourt Brace College Publishers (1985)

Perspective for Living - Conversations on Bereavement

B Mooney (Ed) Published by John Murray (1992)

The Dying and the Bereaved Teenager

JD Morgan (Ed) The Charles press (Philadelphia) (1990)

Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life

CM Parkes 3rd Edition Published by Routledge (1996)

Death and Bereavement across Cultures

CM Parkes, P Laungani, B Young (Eds) Published by Routledge (1997)

The Anatomy of Bereavement: A handbook for the caring professionals

B Raphael Published by Unwin Hyman (1984)

Loss, Bereavement and Grief: A guide to effective caring

B Spall & S Callis Published by Stanley Thornes (1997)

The Revival of Death

T Walter Published by Routledge (1994)

Good Grief: Exploring feelings, loss and death with over elevens and adults

B Ward (and associates) 2nd Edition Published by Jessica Kingsley

Dying: Facing the facts

H Wass  & RA Neimeyer (Eds) Published by Taylor & Francis (1995)

Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy: A handbook for the mental health Practitioner

JW Worden 2nd Edition Published by Routledge (1991)

Section 4 – Other related texts (including historical)

The Churchyards Handbook

P Burman & H Stapleton Published by Church House Publishing (1988)

Mortal Remains: The history and present state of the Victorian and Edwardian cemetery

C Brooks Published by Wheaton (1989)

The Brookwood Necropolis Railway

JM Clarke 3rd Edition Published by The Oakwood Press (1995)

The Victorian Celebration of Death

JS Curl Published by Sutton Publishing (2001)

The Story of the Unknown Warrior 11th November 1920

M Gavaghan Published by M&L Publications (1995)

Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England

C Gittings Published by Routledge (1984)

A Way of Life: Portraits from the funeral trade

Photographs by Len Grant

Published by Len grant Photography (1999) distributed by Coronerstone Publications 70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH

Funeral Customs the World Over

Habenstein RW & Lamers WM (1963) Revised Edition Milwaukee: Bulfin. (Available from the National Funeral Directors Association (USA))

The History of American Funeral Directing

Habenstein RW & Lamers WM (1995) 3rd Revised Edition Milwaukee: Bulfin. (Available from the National funeral Directors Association (USA))

How to Become Dead Rich

H Hodgson Published by Pavilion (1992)

Last Rites: The work of the modern funeral director

G Howarth Published by Baywood Publishing Co (New York) (1996)

Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal

G Howarth and PC Jupp (Eds) Published by MacMillian Press (1996)

Jupp PC (1990) From Dust To Ashes: The Replacement of Burial by Cremation in England 1840-1967 The Congregational Lecture 1990 London: The Congregational Memorial Hall Trust

Death in England: An Illustrated History

PC Jupp & C Gittings (Eds) Published by Manchester University Press (1999)

Goodbye to Victoria – The last Queen Empress: The story of Queen Victoria’s Funeral Train

PJ Keat Published by The Oakwood Press (2001)

The English Way of Death: The Common Funeral since 1450

JWS Litten Published by Robert Hale (1992)

The Art of Death: Visual culture in the English death ritual c1500-c1800

N Llewellyn Published by Reaktion Books/Victoria & Albert Museum (1991)

The Undertaker: Life studies from the Dismal Trade

T Lynch Published by Jonathan Cape (1997)

Bodies in Motion and at Rest

T Lynch Published by Vintage (2001)

London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetter

H Meller 3rd Edition Published by Scholar Press (1994)

The American Way of Death Revisited

J Mitford Published by Virago (1998)

Death, Heaven and the Victorians

J Morley Published by Studio Vista (1971)

A Fine and Private Place: Jesmond Old Cemetery

A Morgan Published by Tyne Bridge Publishing (2000)

The London Way of Death

B Parsons Published by Sutton Publishing (2001)

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

R Richardson Published by Penguin (1988)

Mourning Dress: A costume and Social History

L Taylor Published by George Allen & Unwin (1983)

Death and the Afterlife: A cultural Encyclopedia

RP Taylor Published by ABC-CLIO (California) (2000)

Jack West funeral director: 60 years with funerals

J West Published by Arthur H Stockwell (1988)

Section 5 - Embalming

ANATOMY  &  PHYSIOLOGY                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Principles of Anatomy & Physiology  

Tortora & Anagnostakos  0-06-046694-4

Human Anatomy & Physiology         

Elaine N. Marieb     0-8053-0122-4

Structure & Function of the body       

Thibibeau & Anthony 0-8016-5047-X

Human Anatomy & Physiology          

Soloman Schmidt & Poritski 0-932883-18-4     

Human Anatomy            

Gosling, Harris, Whitemore & William      0-397-44766-3

*Human Biology GCSE (introductory book)

O.F.G. Kilgour

*Atlas of Human Dissection.

Wolfe Publication

*Picture Test in Human Anatomy. 

Wolfe Publications

*Colour Atlas in Human Dissection. 

Wolfe Publication. McMinn & Hutchins

EMBALMING  

*Principles and Practices of Embalming         

Frederick & Strubb

*Thanatochemistry                                          

Dorn & Hopkins     0-8359-7640-8

Embalming: History, Theory and Practice

RG Mayer 3rd Edition Published by Appleton & Lange (USA) (2001)

(This excellent optional book is highly recommended)

Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century

C Quigley Published by McFarland & Co (USA) (1998)

Color and Cosmetics

J Sheridan Mayer Paula Publishing (USA) (1973)

Restorative Art

J Sheridan Mayer Revised Edition Paula Publishing (USA) (1974)

The Art and Science of Embalming

AO Spriggs Published by The Champion Co (USA) (1971)

The Principles and Practice of Embalming

CG Strubb & LG Frederick 4th Edition (USA) (1982)

Lenin’s Embalmers

I Zbarsky & S Hutchinson Published by The Harvill Press (1997)

MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiology for nurses (latest edition)  

M.J.Parker & V.A.Stuke  0-7020-0924-5                    

A Handbook of Mortuary Practice & Safety      

R.I.P.H.H.            0-95146550-1-1

(Available from the Royal Institute of Public Health & Hygiene, 28 Portland Place, London W1N 4DE)

OTHERS

A Medical Dictionary                     Oxford Concise        0-19280001-9

NOTE: Books marked * are available from The Dodge Company Ltd, Unit 15, Ardglen Industrial Estate, Whitechurch, Hants, RG28 7BB  tel: 01256 893883

Section 6 - Journals

Mortality

Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Customer Services Department, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG24 8PR

The BIFD Journal

Published quarterly by The British Institute of Funeral Directors
140 Leamington Road Coventry CV3 6JY

Funeral Director

Published monthly by the National Association of Funeral Directors
National Office 618 Warwick Road Solihull West Midlands B91 1AA

Funeral Service Journal

Published Monthly
PO Box IW73 Leeds LS16 9XW

The Embalmer

Published quarterly by the British Institute of Embalmers
21c Stations Road Knowle Solihull West Midlands B93 OHL

Pharos

Published Quarterly by The Cremation Society of Great Britain
Brecon House 2nd floor 16/16a Albion Place Maidstone Kent ME14 5DX
(Tel: 01622 686698)