Interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and its timings : when is death? /: when is death?. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Shane McCorristine, editor.
• Editors: McCorristine, Shane, 1983-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.9; Death; Civilization -- History; Social history; Philosophy and science; Crime -- Sociological aspects; Medical ethics & professional conduct; Civilization; Crime -- Sociological aspects; Death; Philosophy and science; Social history; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137583284; 1137583282
• Related ISBNs: 9781137583277; 1137583274
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index.
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