Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?
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 ex...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2017
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| Series: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (167 p.) |
| ISBN: | /doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4 9781137583277 9781137583284 |
| Access: | Open Access |