Courting death : the law of mortality /
The fist major international study of the relationship between death and the law - one of the most perplexing and understudied aspects of the legal system.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Pluto Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Law and social theory.
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Table of 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
