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

• Yazar: Shane McCorristine (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
• Seri Bilgileri: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
• Konular: Medical ethics & professional conduct; medical humanities; philosophy
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 ex...