Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?

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Shane McCorristine [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its AfterlifePublisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: 1 Online-Ressource (167 p.)ISBN:

9781137583277
9781137583284

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Summary: 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 contestedPPN: PPN: 1778568696Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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