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.
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.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781349844739 |
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| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication date: | 11/06/2020 |
| Series: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife |
| Edition description: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Pages: | 167 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d) |