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Law and Mourning

"[This book] brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with loss and its reverberations, channeling the p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Editor ), Douglas, Lawrence (Editor ), Sarat, Austin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas
  • Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff
  • The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi
  • To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady
  • Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini
  • Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Achreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders
  • Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.