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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
When is Death?
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Shane McCorristine
Thema
- Kriminalität: Verbrechen & Kriminologie
- Kulturgeschichte: Kulturgeschichte
- Naturwissenschaft: Philosophie & Theorie, Geschichte
Kollektion
- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Zielgruppe
- Research
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2020
Erscheinungsland
- Grossbritannien
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 167
