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