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Remembering and Dismembering the Dead
Floris Tomasini
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife. Num Pages: 112 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JHBZ; JKV; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
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 and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by ... Read more
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
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 and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Number of Pages
103
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137538277
SKU
V9781137538277
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About Floris Tomasini
Floris Tomasini is an applied philosopher, and until quite recently, a Post-Doctoral Wellcome Trust Fellow writing on philosophy of death. He co-wrote Examining Trust in Healthcare: A Multidisciplinary Perspective with David Pilgrim and Ivo Vassilev, and has published on topics including bioethics, philosophy of mental health, death, genomics and trust.
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