Death rites and rights / Brooks-Gordon, Belinda
2007, 1st edition. Portland : Hart Publishing. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #385936
ISBN: 9781841137322
Physical description; 322 pp. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Death Rites and Rights -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 introduction: Death Writes -- 2 the Meaning of Death -- 3 Death, Euthanasia and the Medical Profession -- 4 Criminalising Carers: Death Desires and Assisted Dying Outlaws -- 5 Is there A Human Right to Die? -- 6 Religious Perspectives on the Afterlife: Origin, Development and Funeral Rituals in the Christian Tradition -- 7 Purgatory: the Beginning and the End -- 8 Rites, Rights, Writing: 'Tintern Abbey', Death, and the Will -- 9 Death, Ritual and Material Culture in South London -- 10 Death on the Edge of the Lifeworld: the (Mis-)Appropriation of (Post-)Modern Death -- 11 'Hot' Homicides and the Role of Police-Suspect interviews in the investigation of Illegal Deaths -- 12 Property, Harm and the Corpse -- 13 Crimes Against the Dead -- 14 Death and tort -- 15 An Anatomist's Perspective on the Human Tissue Act -- 16 Anatomical Bodies and Materials of Memory -- index. Subjects; Dead bodies (Law). Death Public opinion. Death Religious aspects. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Law and legislation. Right to Die. Attitude to Death. Euthanasia.
Price: €125.00