Courting death : the law of mortality
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Courting death : the law of mortality
（Law and social theory）
Pluto Press, 1999
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection deals with complex issues relating to death such as 'mercy killings', the 'right to die' and murder. the relationship will always be controversial. This timely and provocative collection brings together scholars from Australia, Britain and the US.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Tales from the Crypt: A Metaphor, An Image, A Story
Desmond Manderson
Part One: In Extremis
1. Death as the Horizon of Law
Peter Fitzpatrick
2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of Sussmayr
Desmond Manderson
3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life
Austin Sarat
4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia
Melanie Williams
Part Two: Post Mortem
5. But a Lump of Earth: The Legal Status of the Corpse
Ngaire Naffine
6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death
Prue Vines
7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed? Inquiring Into Pitjantjatjara Deaths
Jon Willis
8. Pro Patria Mori: Law, Reconciliation, and the Nation
Scott Veitch
Part Three: Momento Mori
9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos
Costas Douzinas
10. The Ethical Obligation to Show Allegiance to the Un-knowable
Marinos Diamantides
11. Stephen Dedalus' Magic Words: Death and the Law Between James Joyce & Pierre Legendre
Adam Gearey
12. Courting Death
Peter Goodrich
Contributors' Notes
Index
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