Overview
- Investigates the notion of posthumous harm to explore ways we have remembered the dead and dying over time
- Combines philisophical and historical approaches to the study of posthumous harm
- Provides a long view of history drawing historical parallels between different periods
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife (PHSCCA)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Groundworks
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Historical Case Studies
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About this book
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 most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Book Subtitle: Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time
Authors: Floris Tomasini
Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53828-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53827-7Published: 11 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53828-4Published: 01 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-6348
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6356
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 103
Topics: Cultural History, History of Science, Crime and Society, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History