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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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781349844739
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-349-84473-9
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Erscheinungstermin: 13.11.2020
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2017
- Serie: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Previously published in hardcover
- Gewicht: 246 g
- Seiten: 167
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 11 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt