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Interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and its timings : when is death?

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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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306.9 INT i

Publisher

London : Palgrave Macmillan., 2017

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xv, 167p. : ill.

Language

English

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9781137583284

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306.9

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Subject(s)

History
Civilization
Social History
Philosophy and science
Death
Crime--Sociological aspects
Mortality
Death in literature

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edited by Shane McCorristine

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