Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?
dc.contributor.author | Shane McCorristine | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-11T16:29:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-11T16:29:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | * |
dc.date.submitted | 2017-11-23 16:11:07 | * |
dc.identifier | 24616 | * |
dc.identifier.uri | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50479 | |
dc.identifier.pr | 0 | * |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | * |
dc.language | English | * |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife | * |
dc.subject | R723-726 | * |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct | en_US |
dc.subject.other | medical humanities | * |
dc.subject.other | philosophy | * |
dc.title | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death? | * |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4 | * |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | d27cd9b0-53e1-403f-a4c8-b180427f6be6 | * |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781137583277 | * |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781137583284 | * |
oapen.pages | 167 | * |
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