TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shane McCorristine
AB  - 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.
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4
ID  - OAPEN ID: 24616
KW  - medical humanities
KW  - philosophy
L1  - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-137-58328-4
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50479
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781137583277
SN  - 9781137583284
TI  - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?null
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