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Interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and its timings : when is death? / Shane McCorristine, editor.

9781137583284
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9781137583277
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London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

English

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10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4 doi

BD444 .I58 2017

306.9

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index.

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Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.

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