Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings: When is Death? - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1013289102 ISBN 13 : 9781013289101

Editeur : Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Synopsis

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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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Saint Philip Street Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1013289102
• ISBN 13: 9781013289101
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible