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

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings : When is Death? - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife

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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.   

Book information

ISBN: 9781137583277
Publisher: Wellcome Trust
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.9
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 167
Weight: 368g
Height: 220mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 18mm