Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

When is Death?

Shane McCorristine editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:5th Oct '17

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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 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.   

“Being based in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies myself, I appreciate this volume as a valuable contribution to encouraging innovative and stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration in death studies.” (Solveiga Zibaite, Mortality, Vol. 24 (3), 2019)

ISBN: 9781137583277

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 3443g

167 pages

1st ed. 2017