After We Die : The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver /

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This volume chronicles not only a human corpse's physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses. The author argues that a corpse maintains a "quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights-both legal and moral. One of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cantor, Norman L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sacrilege.
Offenses against the person.
Burial laws.
Dead > Legal status, laws, etc.
Human body > Law and legislation.
Dead bodies (Law)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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