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1 online resource (viii, 238 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Law and social theory
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Law and social theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
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""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 "" |
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""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 "" |
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""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 "" |
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""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"" |
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""9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos""""I ""; ""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 "" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Dead -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Dead. |
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Death.
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Death. |
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Capital punishment.
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Capital punishment. |
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Euthanasia.
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Euthanasia. |
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Dead bodies (Law)
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Dead bodies (Law) |
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Electronic books.
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Manderson, Desmond.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Courting death. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999 0745313663 (DLC) 99019593 (OCoLC)40838765 |
| ISBN |
9781849640190 (electronic book) |
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184964019X (electronic book) |
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0745313663 (hardback) |
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9780745313665 (hardback) |
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