Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
Produktnummer:
188156d35499a34e628ebfe62454e00259
| Themengebiete: | Open Access interdisciplinary medical humanities mortality philosophy |
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| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 05.10.2017 |
| EAN: | 9781137583277 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 167 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | McCorristine, Shane |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Untertitel: | When is Death? |
Produktinformationen "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings"
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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