Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
When is Death?
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
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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.
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Chapter 1. Introduction; Shane McCorristine.- Chapter 2. Being Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy; Mary Ann Lund.- Chapter 3 . 'A Candidate for Immortality¿: Martyrdom, Memory, and the Marquis of Montrose; Rachel Bennett.- Chapter 4. Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium; Veronique Deblon and Kaat Wils.- Chapter 5. Premature Burial and the Undertakers; Brian Parsons.- Chapter 6. The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler¿s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany; Caroline Sharples.- Chapter 7. Death¿s Impossible Date; Douglas J. Davies.- Chapter 8. The Legal Definition of Death and the Right to Life; Elizabeth Wicks.- Chapter 9. The Last Moment; Jonathan Rée.- Chapter 10. Afterword; Thomas W. Laqueur.- Index
Autoren-Porträt
Shane McCorristine is a cultural historian with interests in the themes of mortality and modernity. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow on the 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse' project at the University of Leicester, UK.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2018, 167 Seiten, 2 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Shane McCorristine
- Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 134984473X
- ISBN-13: 9781349844739
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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