Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

When is Death?. 1st edition 2017. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 184 Seiten

ISBN 134984473X

EAN 9781349844739

Veröffentlicht November 2020

Verlag/Hersteller Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

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.