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Informationen zum Autor Belinda Brooks-Gordon is a Reader in Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. Fatemeh Ebtehaj is associate member of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford, UK. Martin Johnson is Professor of Reproductive Sciences in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Research at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. Klappentext Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects, and is one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect. Nations are judged by how they deal with or cause death, and what meaning they attach to mourning rites. Mourning rites, in particular, have become a focus for national attention in the UK, whether in response to the sudden death of Diana, Princess of Wales; the quiet curiosity shown to the death of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; or the mass laying of fields of flowers following the July 7 bombings in 2005. What is the meaning of death in contemporary Britain and in other cultures, and how has it changed over time? The essays in this collection tackle the diverse ways in which death is now experienced in modern society, and in the process answer a wide variety of questions: How is death defined by law? Do the dead have legal rights? What is one allowed to have and not have done to one's body after death? What are the rights of next of kin in this resp Zusammenfassung This volume considers the diverse social, legal and medical aspects of one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect; death. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Death Writes Martin Richards and Martin H JohnsonPart 1: When and How We Die2 The Meaning of Death P-L Chau and Jonathan Herring3 Death, Euthanasia and the Medical Profession Emily Jackson4 Criminalising Carers: Death Desires and Assisted Dying Outlaws Hazel Biggs5 Is There a Human Right to Die? Antje Du Bois-PedainPart 2: Rituals and Practices of Death6 Religious Perspectives on the Afterlife: Origin, Development and Funeral Rituals in the Christian Tradition Peter C Jupp7 Purgatory: The Beginning and the End Frank Woodman and Judith Middleton-Stewart8 Rites, Rights, Writing: 'Tintern Abbey', Death and the Will Sarah Goodwin9 Death, Ritual and Material Culture in South London Daniel Miller and Fiona Parrott10 Death on the Edge of the Lifeworld: The (Mis-)Appropriation of (Post-)Modern Death Graham ScamblerPart 3: Dealing with Bodies11 'Hot' Homicides and the Role of Police-Suspect Interviews in the Investigation of Illegal Deaths Martin Innes12 Property, Harm and the Corpse David Price13 Crimes Against the Dead Jonathan Herring14 Death and Tort Steve Hedley15 An Anatomist's Perspective on the Human Tissue Act 2004 Joanne Wilton16 Anatomical Bodies and Materials of Memory Elizabeth Hallam...
