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Title

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

Summary

  • 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.

Names

  • McCorristine, Shane, editor

Created / Published

  • London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  Civilization--History
  • -  Crime--Sociological aspects
  • -  History
  • -  Philosophy and science
  • -  Social history
  • -  Cultural History
  • -  Crime and Society
  • -  History of Science
  • -  Philosophy of Science
  • -  Social History

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  History (R0) (SpringerNature-43722)
  • -  History (SpringerNature-41172)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XV, 167 pages 2 illustrations in color.)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019768583

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • image
  • epub

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Mccorristine, Shane, editor. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019768583/.

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McCorristine, S., editor. (2017) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019768583/.

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Mccorristine, Shane, editor. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019768583/>.