Shane McCorristine <br/><br/>
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death? 

 -  Palgrave Macmillan  2017 
 - 1 electronic resource (167 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>/doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4 9781137583277 9781137583284 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>medical humanities philosophy