Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings : When is Death? Hardback
Edited by Shane McCorristine
Part of the Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife series
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death.
In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we know if someone is dead or not?
What do people experience at the moment when they die?
Is death simply a biological event that comes about in temporal stages of decomposition, or is it a social event defined through cultures, practices, and commemorations?
In other words, when exactly is death? Taken together, these contributions explore how death emerges in a series of stages that are uncertain, paradoxical, and socially contested.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:167 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; XV, 167 p. 2 illus. in color.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:05/10/2017
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- ISBN:9781137583277
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:167 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; XV, 167 p. 2 illus. in color.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:05/10/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137583277
