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...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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