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Law and the Dead - Technology, Relations and Institutions (Hardcover)
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Law and the Dead - Technology, Relations and Institutions (Hardcover)
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The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the
West. Legal, medical and bureaucratic institutions developed
innovative technologies for managing the dead, maximising their
efficacy and exploiting their vitality. Law and the Dead writes a
history of their institutional life in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. With a particular focus on the technologies of the death
investigation process, including place-making, the forensic gaze,
bureaucratic manuals, record-keeping and radiography, this book
examines how the dead came to be incorporated into legal
institutions in the modern era. Drawing on the writings of
philosophers, historians and legal theorists, it offers tools for
thinking through how the dead dwell in law, how their lives persist
through the conduct of office, and how coroners assume
responsibility for taking care of the dead. This historical and
interdisciplinary book offers a provocative challenge to
conventional thinking about the sequestration of the dead in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It asks the reader to think
through and with legal institutions when writing a history of the
dead, and to trace the important role assumed by coroners in the
governance of the dead. This book will be of interest to scholars
working in law, history, sociology and criminology.
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