Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
When is Death?
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2017-10-05
- Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
- Vikt368 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SeriePalgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
- Antal sidor167
- Upplaga17001
- FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
- ISBN9781137583277