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Remembering and disremembering the dead : posthumous punishment, harm and red…
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of th…
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- 9781137538284
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- vii, 103p. : ill.
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- 306.9 TOM r
Interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and its timings : when is death?
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 ex…
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- 9781137583284
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- xv, 167p. : ill.
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- 306.9 INT i
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