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Title Courting death : the law of mortality / edited by Desmond Manderson
Published London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages)
Series Law and social theory
Law and social theory.
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
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 -- 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
9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and ThanatosI -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Dead -- Legal status, laws, etc
Death.
Capital punishment.
Euthanasia.
Dead bodies (Law)
Death
Capital Punishment
Euthanasia
deaths.
LAW -- Natural Law.
LAW -- General.
Capital punishment
Dead bodies (Law)
Death
Euthanasia
Cadavres (droit)
Morts -- Statut juridique.
Décès (droit)
Euthanasie.
Peine de mort.
Form Electronic book
Author Manderson, Desmond
LC no. 99019593
ISBN 9781849640190
184964019X
9780745313610
0745313612
0585425973
9780585425979