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

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 l...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
مؤلفون آخرون: McCorristine, Shane (المحرر)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
سلاسل:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4
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الملخص: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.   .
وصف مادي:XV, 167 p. 2 illus. in color. online resource.
ردمك:9781137583284
DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4
وصول:Open Access