After we die : the life and times of the human cadaver /

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What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? Legal scholar Norman Cantor provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining explorat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cantor, Norman L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Temas:
Dead bodies (Law)
Human body > Law and legislation.
Dead > Legal status, laws, etc.
Burial laws.
Offenses against the person.
Sacrilege.
Cadavres (Droit)
Infractions contre la personne.
Sacrilège.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Burial laws
Human body > Law and legislation
Offenses against the person
Sacrilege
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • When does a person become a corpse?
  • The human nature of a cadaver
  • The legal status of the postliving : do corpses have rights?
  • Decomposition of the body and efforts to slow its disintegration
  • Final disposal of human remains
  • Eternal preservation of the deceased : literally and figuratively
  • The cadaver as supplier of used body parts
  • The cadaver as teacher, research subject, or forensic witness
  • The cadaver as parent
  • Body snatching, then and now
  • Desecration of human remains
  • Public display and the dignity of human remains
  • Don't neglect the fate of your remains.

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