Medical history professor at the university of wisconsin. You focus on bioethics. Organ transplants. How did attitudes about death change in the United States after world war ii . One of the ways in which death changed after world war ii is that there was a growing interest in the increasing costs associated with the funeral industry. Great concern about Funeral Directors who unscrupulously took advantage of people during their time of need. And so, in response to this exploitation, there was a trend toward simple burial and the formation of socalled memorial societies that offered workingclass families a much cheaper alternative for the burial costs associated with the death of their loved ones. Another Major Development was the popularity, the enormous attention to the possibility that blindness could be cured by cornea transplants in the 1940s. Thousands of americans volunteered their corneas after their deaths in the effort to restore the sight of a blind person. Among many of thes
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As i mentioned, over two hundred thousand people could be here on a day during world war ii. The station had to be closed because it was full. Some of the benches needed to be removed then. It was still a primarily the largest waiting room certainly, in the city and the crossroads of the world, it was once dubbed by the press. Interesting to go through this building, particularly world war ii and the changes that were made. For example, the announcers voice was changed to a female voice, under the theory that a female voice would be sweeter and softer and more appropriate during wartime. We have a quote from one of the porters who says that he was bribed frequently or attempted to bribe frequently to put people in a wheelchair so he could take them to the head of the line. The lines were so long, he extended quite a way through the building. Watch the entire tour of Union Station at 6 p. M. And 10 p. M. Eastern sunday on american artifacts. This is american cspan3. V only on join us to
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