Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-84473-9 (ISBN)
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.
Shane McCorristine is a cultural historian with interests in the themes of mortality and modernity. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow on the ‘Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse’ project at the University of Leicester, UK.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Shane McCorristine.- Chapter 2. Being Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy; Mary Ann Lund.- Chapter 3 . 'A Candidate for Immortality’: Martyrdom, Memory, and the Marquis of Montrose; Rachel Bennett.- Chapter 4. Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium; Veronique Deblon and Kaat Wils.- Chapter 5. Premature Burial and the Undertakers; Brian Parsons.- Chapter 6. The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany; Caroline Sharples.- Chapter 7. Death’s Impossible Date; Douglas J. Davies.- Chapter 8. The Legal Definition of Death and the Right to Life; Elizabeth Wicks.- Chapter 9. The Last Moment; Jonathan Rée.- Chapter 10. Afterword; Thomas W. Laqueur.- Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.12.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Illustrations, color; XV, 167 p. 2 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Interdisciplinary • Medical Humanities • Mortality • open access • Philosophy |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-84473-X / 134984473X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-84473-9 / 9781349844739 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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