ISBN:
9780745313665
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (288 p)
Series Statement:
Law and Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Courting Death : The Legal Constitution of Mortality
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Capital punishment
;
Dead ; Legal status, laws, etc
;
Dead bodies (Law)
;
Death
;
Euthanasia
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The fist major international study of the relationship between death and the law - one of the most perplexing and understudied aspects of the legal system.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Tales from the Crypt - A Metaphor, An Image, A Story -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- Part One. In Extremis -- 1. Death as the Horizon of the Law -- INTRODUCTION: LIMITING THE LAW -- SCENES FROM THE EXECUTION -- DEATH AND THE DECOMPOSITION OF JUDICIAL DISCOURSE -- CONCLUSION: THE LIMITLESS LIMIT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of Süssmayr -- INTRODUCTION -- A -- I -- II -- B -- I -- II -- C -- I -- II -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTES -- 3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life -- INTRODUCTION -- DOING DEATH SILENTLY, INVISIBLY -- ON THE INVISIBLE BODY OF THE CONDEMNED -- THE 'BODY IN PAIN' -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia -- INTRODUCTION -- ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: A POEM, AND AN ESSAY ON POETRY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Part Two. Post Mortem -- 5. 'But a Lump of Earth'?: The Legal Status of the Corpse -- A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CORPSE -- Enter the Body Snatchers -- The 'Right' of Burial: Possession and Disposal of the Corpse -- More Property than Person? -- THEORISING THE CORPSE -- POSTSCRIPT: A COHERENT VIEW OF THE COMPLETE PERSON? -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death or How Long Can I Stay? -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND ABORIGINAL REMAINS -- THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND TO THE LAW OF BODILY REMAINS -- AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES -- CHARACTERISING THE RIGHT TO REMAIN ONCE BURIED -- ABORIGINAL VIEWS -- RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH ARCHAEOLOGY -- LEGAL CONTROL OF ABORIGINAL BURIAL SITES -- LAW, PERCEPTIONS OF MORTALITY AND THE FUTURE -- NOTES -- 7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?: Inquiring into Pitjantjatjara Deaths -- DEATH AND THE POLICE.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Introduction: Tales from the Crypt - A Metaphor, An Image, A Story ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""Part One. In Extremis""; ""1. Death as the Horizon of the Law ""; ""INTRODUCTION: LIMITING THE LAW ""; ""SCENES FROM THE EXECUTION ""; ""DEATH AND THE DECOMPOSITION OF JUDICIAL DISCOURSE ""; ""CONCLUSION: THE LIMITLESS LIMIT ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of SÃ?ssmayr ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""A ""; ""I ""; ""II ""; ""B ""; ""I ""; ""II ""; ""C ""; ""I ""; ""II ""; ""CONCLUSION ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""ACKNOWLEDGEMENT """"NOTES ""; ""3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""DOING DEATH SILENTLY, INVISIBLY ""; ""ON THE INVISIBLE BODY OF THE CONDEMNED ""; ""THE 'BODY IN PAIN' ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""NOTES ""; ""4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: A POEM, AND AN ESSAY ON POETRY ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""NOTES ""; ""Part Two. Post Mortem""; ""5. 'But a Lump of Earth'?: The Legal Status of the Corpse ""; ""A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CORPSE ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Enter the Body Snatchers """"The 'Right' of Burial: Possession and Disposal of the Corpse ""; ""More Property than Person? ""; ""THEORISING THE CORPSE ""; ""POSTSCRIPT: A COHERENT VIEW OF THE COMPLETE PERSON? ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death or How Long Can I Stay? ""; ""ARCHAEOLOGY AND ABORIGINAL REMAINS ""; ""THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND TO THE LAW OF BODILY REMAINS ""; ""AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES ""; ""CHARACTERISING THE RIGHT TO REMAIN ONCE BURIED ""; ""ABORIGINAL VIEWS ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH ARCHAEOLOGY """"LEGAL CONTROL OF ABORIGINAL BURIAL SITES ""; ""LAW, PERCEPTIONS OF MORTALITY AND THE FUTURE ""; ""NOTES ""; ""7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?: Inquiring into Pitjantjatjara Deaths ""; ""DEATH AND THE POLICE ""; ""DEATH AND THE PITJANTJATJARA ""; ""Ritual Inquest: The Aboriginal Coronial Method ""; ""The Process of Ritual Inquest ""; ""CONCLUSION: DID HE FALL OR WAS HE PUSHED? ""; ""NOTES ""; ""8. Pro Patria Mori: Law, Reconciliation and the Nation ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""Part Three. Memento Mori""
Description / Table of Contents:
""9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos""""I ""; ""II ""; ""III ""; ""IV ""; ""NOTES ""; ""10. The Ethical Obligation to Show Allegiance to the Un- knowable ""; ""THE DEATH OF MY OTHER AND THE SURVIVING ME: : NONSENSE AND SENSIBILITY ""; ""LEGAL VISION AND THE APPROPRIATION OF DEATH S ABSURDITY ""; ""THE OTHER AS 'LIVING-THING' AND LEGAL CLOSURE ""; ""BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE OF THE LIVING- THING : RUPTURE OF LEGAL CLOSURE ""; ""NOTES ""; ""11. Stephen Dedalus' Magic Words: Death and the Law between James Joyce and Pierre Legendre ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""INTRODUCTION ""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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