Remembering and Disremembering the Dead : Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time.

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Main Author: Tomasini, Floris.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- Part I Conceptual Groundworks -- Chapter 2 What and When Is Death? -- Abstract -- Biological Death -- Defining Death -- Death: Absolute State, Final Event and Process -- Death as Change-A Historical Long-View -- A More Conceptual View of Death -- Death as Change -- Social Death -- Narrative Identity -- Similarity and Difference: Biological Versus Social Death -- The Harm and Redemption of Death -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3 Posthumous Harm, Punishment and Redemption -- Abstract -- The Impossibility of Posthumous Harm -- Death and Ante-Mortem Harm -- The Harm of Death Reframed -- The Meaningfulness of Life Beyond Death -- Reconsidering the Annihilation Thesis and Existence Condition -- Towards a Typology of Harms -- Reviewing and Previewing Harm and Redemption of Dying and Being Dead -- First Assumption: We Are Either Dead or Alive -- Second Assumption: Ante-Mortem Harm Is Possible, Posthumous Harm Is Not -- Third Assumption: It Is Possible to Harm a Living Person but Not Their Corpse -- Fourth Assumption: Posthumous RedemptionPardoning Is Impossible and Pointless -- Summary -- References -- Part II Historical Case Studies -- Chapter 4 Capital Punishment, Posthumous Punishment and Pardon -- Abstract -- The Shot at Dawn Policy During the First World War -- Execution: The Fictive Reconstruction of Being Shot at Dawn -- Punishment and Execution in Historical Context -- Aftermath of the Shot at Dawn Policy-Some Critical Reflections -- Retributive Justice: Some Individual Case Studies -- Harry Farr: Shot for Cowardice -- Ingham and Longshaw: 'Pals' Shot for Desertion -- Rogues and Murderers -- Critical Reflection on Posthumously Pardoning Those Shot at Dawn -- The Historical Case for a Posthumous Pardon: The Putowski and Sykes Thesis. 
505 8 |a The Historical Case Against a Posthumous Pardon: The Corns and Hughes-Wilson Thesis -- What Is a Posthumous Pardon for? -- A Historical Long-View of Posthumous Punishment and Redemption -- A Bloody Code? -- Retributive Justice, Deterrent and Posthumous Punishment -- Dismemberment, Disrememberment and the Execution Scene -- Redemption and Posthumous Pardoning -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5 Posthumous Harm in the History of Medicine -- Abstract -- Contemporary Perspectives on Posthumous Harm and Redemption: Alder Hey -- An Overview of Events -- A Short Summary of Redfern's Formal Conclusions -- The Misconduct of Persons: Professor Dick van Velzen -- Relationship Between the University and the Hospital -- The Role of the Coroner -- Serious Incident Procedure and Record Keeping -- The Issue of Consent -- Beyond the Formal Conclusions of Redfern -- Understanding the Parental Oral Evidence to Redfern -- Consent and the Spectrum of Deceit -- Personal Identity and Its Continuation Beyond Death -- Posthumous Harm as Narrative or Symbolic Harm to the Dead -- Posthumous Redemption Narratives: Failures and Successes -- A Historical Long-View of Posthumous Harm and Redemption: Alder Hey -- A Historical Long View of Posthumous Harm: Comparing Body-Snatching to Organ-Snatching -- Improper Procurement and Retention -- The Commodity Value of the Cadaver -- The Moral Ambivalence of the Collectors of Human Material Over Time -- Complicated Grief -- Public Furore and Parliamentary Intervention -- Cultural and Religious Taboo -- Summary -- References -- Index. 
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