Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings When is Death?

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 l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	Shane McCorristine (auth), McCorristine, Shane. editor (editor)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	London : Palgrave Macmillan 2017 2017.
Edición:	1st ed. 2017.
Colección:	Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Materias:	Civilization—History. Social history. History. Crime—Sociological aspects. Philosophy and science. Cultural History. Social History. History of Science. Crime and Society. Philosophy of Science. medical humanities philosophy
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425399606719

Tabla de Contenidos:

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.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings When is Death?

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