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Death Rites and Rights (Paperback, New)
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Death Rites and Rights (Paperback, New)
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Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects and
is one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect.
In this volume, we ask: What is the meaning of death in
contemporary Britain, and in other cultures, and how has it changed
over time? The essays in this collection tackle the diverse ways in
which death is now experienced in modern society, in the process
answering a wide variety of questions: How is death defined by law?
Do the dead have legal rights? What is one allowed to have and not
have done to one's body after death? What are the rights of next of
kin in this respect? What compensation exists for death and how is
death valued? What is happening to the law on euthanasia and
suicide? Is there a human right to die? What is the principle of
sanctity of life? What of criminal offences against the dead? How
are the traditions of death still played out in religion? How have
customs and traditions of the disposal of bodies and funerals
changed? What happens to donated bodies in the biomedical setting
where anatomical education is permitted? What processes are
employed by police when investigating suspicious deaths? What of
representations of death? These and other questions are the subject
of this challenging and diverse set of essays.
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