1. 'Vegetables', 'vampires' and other hybrids -- 2. The dying body: visual representations -- 3. Bodies without selves -- 4. Medicalising the body -- 5. Narratives of the body I: the coroner's court -- 6. Narratives of the body II: the Church court -- 7. Socialising the body -- 8. Married life after death -- 9. Ghosts, apparitions and occult phenomena -- 10. Mediating the dead: spiritualists and clairvoyants -- 11. Beyond the body
Summary
The authors challenge theories that put the body at the centre of identity, going 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing
