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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

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When is Death?, Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

ISBN: 1137583274
ISBN 13: 9781137583277
Herausgeber: Shane McCorristine
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xv, 167 S., 2 farbige Illustr., 167 p. 2 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2017
Auflage: 1/2018
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

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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Beschreibung

Open Access Interrogates the philosophical question of what death means and when it occurs Explores such questions in chapters with a wide temporal and geographical span Argues for the value of an interdisciplinary approach when asking such questions

Autorenporträt

Shane McCorristine is a cultural historian with interests in the themes of mortality and modernity. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow on the Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse project at the University of Leicester, UK. 

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