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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| Aineistotyyppi: | Elektroninen E-kirja |
| Kieli: | englanti |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Sarja: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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| Linkit: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4 |
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| Yhteenveto: | 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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| Ulkoasu: | XV, 167 p. 2 illus. in color. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781137583284 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4 |
| Pääsy: | Open Access |