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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings - When is Death? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R977
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings - When is Death? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Shane McCorristine

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings - When is Death? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Shane McCorristine

Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

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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.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Release date: October 2017
First published: 2017
Editors: Shane McCorristine
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 167
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-58327-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
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LSN: 1-137-58327-4
Barcode: 9781137583277

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