Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

When is Death?

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Shane McCorristine, Shane Mccorristine

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-13
Mått148 x 210 x 11 mm
Vikt246 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Antal sidor167
Upplaga20001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349844739

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Chapter 1. Introduction; Shane McCorristine.- Chapter 2. Being Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy; Mary Ann Lund.- Chapter 3 . 'A Candidate for Immortality’: Martyrdom, Memory, and the Marquis of Montrose; Rachel Bennett.- Chapter 4. Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium; Veronique Deblon and Kaat Wils.- Chapter 5. Premature Burial and the Undertakers; Brian Parsons.- Chapter 6. The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany; Caroline Sharples.- Chapter 7. Death’s Impossible Date; Douglas J. Davies.- Chapter 8. The Legal Definition of Death and the Right to Life; Elizabeth Wicks.- Chapter 9. The Last Moment; Jonathan Rée.- Chapter 10. Afterword; Thomas W. Laqueur.- Index.