Death rites and rights / edited by Belinda Brooks-Gordon [and others] ; for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.
What is the meaning of death in contemporary Britain, and in other cultures, and how has it changed over time? This is a collection of essays which tackle the diverse ways in which death is experienced in modern society.
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Table of Contents:
- The meaning of death / by P.-L. Chau and Jonathan Herring
- Death, euthanasia and the medical profession / by Emily Jackson
- Criminalising carers : death desires and assisted dying outlaws / by Hazel Biggs
- Is there a human right to die? / by Antje Du Bois-Pedain
- Religious perspectives on the afterlife : origin, development and funeral rituals in the Christian tradition / by Peter C. Jupp
- Purgatory : the beginning and the end / by Frank Woodman and Judith Middleton-Stewart
- Rites, rights, writing : 'Tintern Abbey', death and the will / by Sarah Goodwin
- Death, ritual and material culture in South London / by Daniel Miller and Fiona Parrott
- Death on the edge of the lifeworld : the (mis- )appropriation of (post- )modern death / by Graham Scambler
- Dealing with bodies
- 'Hot' homicides and the role of police-suspect interviews in the investigation of illegal deaths / by Martin Innes
- Property, harm and the corpse / by David Price
- Crimes against the dead / by Jonathan Herring
- Death and tort / by Steve Hedley
- An anatomist's perspective on the Human Tissue Act 2004 / by Joanne Wilton
- Anatomical bodies and materials of memory / by Elizabeth Hallam.