Death Rites and Rights
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By Belinda Brooks-Gordon (Editor), Fatemeh Ebtehaj (Editor), Jonathan Herring (Editor), Cambridge Socio-Legal Group (Editor), Martin Richards (Editor)
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Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects and is one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect. In this volume, we ask: What is the meaning of death in contemporary Britain, and in other cultures, and how has it changed over time? The essays in this collection tackle the diverse ways in which death is now experienced in modern society, in the process answering a wide variety of questions: How is death defined by law? Do the dead have legal rights? What ...






















