Spectacular death interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and (un)representability

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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy; Enlightenment and Romanticism: Aestheticizing the Corpse; Memorialization and the City; Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death; Live Deaths and Afterlives; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover.;An interdisciplinary collection of essays on the medical and social articulation of death, this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined. Though it touches us all, we can perceive it only in life - with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively. This volume goes beyond these models to question self-reflexively how the management of death is organized and motivated and the ways that death is at once feared and embraced. Drawing on the very latest in the medi. Front Cover Preliminary Pages Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Classical Death: Comedy and Tragedy Enlightenment and Romanticism: Aestheticizing the Corpse Memorialization and the City Policy: Border Control Between Life and Death Live Deaths and Afterlives Bibliography Notes on Contributors Back Cover.