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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583282
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings written by Shane McCorristine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings

Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013289118
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings written by Shane McCorristine and published by Saint Philip Street Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

And Death Shall Have Dominion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying, Caregivers, Death, Mourning and the Bereaved

Author : Katarzyna Małecka
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848884184
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book And Death Shall Have Dominion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying, Caregivers, Death, Mourning and the Bereaved written by Katarzyna Małecka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents a variety of perspectives on death and dying by scholars from different countries. The areas covered in the volume include: Conceptual, Cultural, and Gender Approaches to Death and the Deceased; Children and Death; Legal Aspects of Euthanasia and Discussion on Choices at End of Life; Palliative Care and Responsibilities and Challenges of Medical and Family Caregivers; the Aesthetic Experience of Life's End; and Modern Ways of Grieving and Commemorating the Dead.

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319779087
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse written by Sarah Tarlow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.

End of Life Issues

Author : Brian De Vries
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book End of Life Issues written by Brian De Vries and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity of life is mirrored in, and elaborated by, the complexity of dying, death, and bereavement - perhaps not surprising if one views life and death as complementary processes, omnipresent and opposing sides of the same construct. Evidence of this complexity is readily apparent in the burgeoning discourse surrounding end of life issues.

Time of Death

Author : Glenys Caswell
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1804550078
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Time of Death written by Glenys Caswell and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a gap in social science research to explore the meanings, understandings, and experiences of time at life’s most critical point, this book takes a thoughtful sociological approach to questions about how humans use and experience time in relation to when someone dies.

Dying Alone

Author : Glenys Caswell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303092758X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Dying Alone written by Glenys Caswell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sociological challenge to the long-held assumption that dying alone is a bad way to die and that for a death to be a good one the dying person should be accompanied. This assumption is represented in the deathbed scene, where the dying person is supported by religious or medical professionals, and accompanied by family and friends. This is a familiar scene to consumers of culture and is depicted in many texts including news media, fiction, television, drama and documentaries. The cultural script underpinning this assumption is examined, drawing on empirical data and published literature. Clarification is offered about what is meant when someone is said to die alone: are they alone at the precise moment of their death, or is it during the period before that? Questions are asked about whose interests are best served by the accompaniment of dying people, whether dying alone means dying lonely and whether, for some individuals, dying alone can be a choice and offer a good death? This book is suitable for scholars and students in the field of dying and death, as well as practitioners who work with dying people, some of whom may wish to be alone.

Hitler’s Death

Author : Luke Daly-Groves
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472834534
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Hitler’s Death written by Luke Daly-Groves and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? Countless documentaries, newspaper articles and internet pages written by conspiracy theorists have led the ongoing debate surrounding Hitler's last days. Historians have not yet managed to make a serious response. Until now. This book is the first attempt by an academic to return to the evidence of Hitler's suicide in order to scrutinise the most recent arguments of conspiracy theorists using scientific methods. Through analysis of recently declassified MI5 files, previously unpublished sketches of Hitler's bunker, personal accounts of intelligence officers along with stories of shoot-outs, plunder and secret agents, this scrupulously researched book takes on the doubters to tell the full story of how Hitler died.

Narrative Fiction and Death

Author : Sabine Köllmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100096504X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Fiction and Death written by Sabine Köllmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature. It focuses on narrative fiction that conveys the experience of dying from the internal perspective of a dying protagonist. Writers from Victor Hugo in the early 1800s to Elif Shafak in the present day have imagined the unknowable final moments on the threshold to death. This literary study examines the wide range of narrative strategies used to evoke the transition from life to death, and to what effect, revealing not only each writer’s unique way of representing the dying experience; the comparative reading also finds common concerns in these texts and uncovers surprising parallels and unexplored intertextual relations between works across time and space that will interest comparatists as well as specialists in the literatures discussed. Students of individual texts examined here will benefit from detailed analyses of these works. The fictional evocation of dying addresses our basic human fears, offering catharsis, consolation, and a greater cognitive and emotional understanding of that unknowable experience. Presented in an engaging and highly readable manner, this study argues for literature’s potential to challenge our assumptions about the end of life and change our approach to dying, an aspect that will interest students and researchers of the health humanities, palliative caregivers, and all those interested in questions of the end of life.

Invisible Labours

Author : Aimee Louise Middlemiss
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805392115
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Labours written by Aimee Louise Middlemiss and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labours describes the reproductive politics of this category of pregnancy loss in England. It shows how second trimester pregnancy loss produces specific medical and social experiences, revealing an underlying teleological ontology of pregnancy. Some women then use an alternative understanding of pregnancy based on kinship with the second trimester foetal being or baby to resist the erasure of their experience.

Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain

Author : Patrick Low
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000095819
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Patrick Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall. By examining a period of dramatic change in punishment practice, this collection of essays provides a fresh historical perspective on nineteenth century execution culture, with a focus on Scotland, Wales and the regions of England. From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual has two parts. Part 1 addresses the criminal body and the witnessing of executions in the nineteenth century, including studies of the execution crowd and executioners’ memoirs, as well as reflections on the experience of narratives around capital punishment in museums in the present day. Part 2 explores the treatment of the execution experience in the print media, from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The collection draws together contributions from the fields of Heritage and Museum Studies, History, Law, Legal History and Literary Studies, to shed new light on execution culture in nineteenth century Britain. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of criminology, heritage and museum studies, history, law, legal history, medical humanities and socio-legal studies.

Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law

Author : Shaun D. Pattinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317612809
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law written by Shaun D. Pattinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her consent alone? Is it lawful to remove food and water provided by tube to a patient in a vegetative state? Is a woman’s refusal of a caesarean section recommended for the benefit of the fetus legally decisive? These questions were central to the four focal cases revisited in this book. This book revisits nine landmark cases. For each, a new leading judgment is attributed to an imagined judge, Athena, who operates within the constraints of the legal system of England and Wales. Her judgments accord with an innovative legal theory, referred to as ‘modified law as integrity’, and are linked as a line of precedent. The result is a re-spinning of extant judicial threads into a web of legal principles with a greater claim to coherence and defensibility than those in the original cases. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of medical law, criminal law, bioethics, legal theory and moral philosophy.

Extinction and Memorial Culture

Author : Hannah Stark
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000900045
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Extinction and Memorial Culture written by Hannah Stark and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars to consider how extinction is memorialised in museums and cultural institutions, through monuments, in literature and art, through public acts of ritual and protest, and in everyday practices. In an era in which species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate, we must find new ways to engage critically, creatively, and courageously with species loss. Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene develops the conceptual tools to think in complex ways about extinctions and their aftermath, along with providing new insights into commemorating and mourning more-than-human lives. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, extinction studies, memorial culture, and the Anthropocene.

Unravelling Anti-Aging

Author : Jason L. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031578562
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Unravelling Anti-Aging written by Jason L. Powell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Medical Examiner Service

Author : Jason Payne-James
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000565947
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Medical Examiner Service written by Jason Payne-James and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a practical guide for all those working in or with Medical Examiner Services in England and Wales. It is an adjunct to the e-learning and face-to-face training required to fulfil the Medical Examiner and Medical Examiner Officer roles. Medical Examiner Services also work closely with a wide range of stakeholders including bereavement and mortuary teams, Coroners and their Officers, Registrars, Funeral Directors and those working in clinical governance and patient safety. This book provides an essential overview of all aspects of the Medical Examiner system for anyone working in these areas, or in any aspect of the support and management of the deceased and bereaved. A concise guide including the knowledge base required to develop and run a Medical Examiner Service Content is completely aligned with required training Written by those with direct experience of establishing and working with Medical Examiner Services Relevant to a wide range of stakeholders who work with patients and the bereaved

Seeing Is Believing

Author : Richard Vance Goodwin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514002019
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Is Believing written by Richard Vance Goodwin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might film reveal God? In its most basic form, film is a series of images displayed over time. Of course, film has developed greatly since the Lumière brothers by adding components such as sound, special effects, digital recording, and more to create an increasingly complex artistic medium. Historically, film studies has often focused on the narrative aspect of film as it seeks to tell a story. More recent studies, however, have turned attention to other elements of film, such as the musical score. Yet, film remains, in a sense, a series of images. In this Studies in Theology and the Arts (STA) volume, theologian Richard Goodwin considers how the images that constitute film might be a conduit of God's revelation. By considering works by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Bresson, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, and more, Goodwin argues that by inviting emotional responses, film images can be a medium of divine revelation. Blessed are those who have seen God... through film. The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.

Digital Transformation of Identity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Author : Kazuhiko Shibuya
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811522480
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Digital Transformation of Identity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence written by Kazuhiko Shibuya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the digital transformation of identity in the age of artificial intelligence. It articulates the nature of identity of human beings, based on cutting-edge knowledge in the field of AI and big-data sciences, and discusses identity by drawing on comprehensive investigations in digital social sciences and exploring wider disciplines related to philosophy, ethics, sociology, STS, computer sciences, engineering, and medical sciences. Reviewing contemporary conditions proliferated by advanced technological trends and unveiling social mechanisms of human identity, this book appeals to undergraduate and graduate students as well as academic researchers.