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

Shane McCorristine (Curatore)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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.   

• Curatore: Shane McCorristine
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Collana: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 167 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9781349844739

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