Remembering and disremembering the dead : posthumous punishment, harm and redemption over time / Floris Tomasini.
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs a...
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London, United Kingdom :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- PART I
- Conceptual groundworks
- Chapter 2: What and when is death?
- Chapter 3: Posthumous harm, punishment and redemption
- PART II
- Historical Case Study
- Chapter 4: Capital punishment, posthumous punishment and pardon
- Chapter 5: Posthumous harm and the improper removal and retention of organs
- Index.