After we die the life and times of the human cadaver /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
2010.
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Sommario:
- When does a person become a corpse?
- The human nature of the corpse
- The legal status of the post living : do corpses have rights?
- Decomposition of the body and efforts to slow its disintegration
- Final disposal of human remains
- Eternal preservation of the deceased : literally and figuratively
- The cadaver as supplier of used body parts
- The cadaver as teacher, research subject, or forensic witness
- The cadaver as parent
- Body snatching, then and now
- Desecration of human remains
- Public display and the dignity of human remains
- Corpses are a lot like you and me, only different.