Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings When is Death? /

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings When is Death? /

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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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: McCorristine, Shane (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,
Subjects:
Civilization > History.
Social history.
Science > History.
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Science > Philosophy.
Cultural History.
Social History.
History of Science.
Crime and Society.
Philosophy of Science.
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Table of 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.

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