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

Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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