Death rites and rights

Brooks-Gordon, Belinda

Death rites and rights edited by Belinda Brooks-Gordon ... [et al.] for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group - Oxford, Portland Hart 2007 - 308p. Pbk

"This book is the sixth in a series by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group and is a product of a three-day workshop held in September 2006" - p.v. Includes bibliographical references and index.



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 -- Anatomist's perspective on the Human Tissue Act 2004 / by Joanne Wilton -- Anatomical bodies and materials of memory / by Elizabeth Hallam.

9781841137322

2008273163


Death - Public opinion
Dead bodies (Law)
Death - Religious aspects
Burial laws

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