Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings  When is Death? /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Shane McCorristine. 
 - 1st ed. 2017. 
 - XV, 167 páginas2 ilustraciones in color.  online resource. 
 - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,  2947-6356 .
 - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife, .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. . 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137583284 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization-History.<br/>Social history.<br/>Science-History.<br/>Crime-Sociological aspects.<br/>Science-Philosophy.<br/>Cultural History.<br/>Social History.<br/>History of Science.<br/>Crime and Society.<br/>Philosophy of Science.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.09