Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions

ISBN-13: 9780367660246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 142 str.

Marc Trabsky

Opis

The government of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureaucratic institutions developed innovative technologies for managing the dead, maximising their efficacy and exploiting their vitality.

Recenzje

The book was awarded the LSAANZ Book Prize 2019

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1   Law in the Necropolis

2   Visual Regimes of the Dead

3   The Bureaucratic Logic of Office

4   Dead Records

5   Screening the Corpse

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Dr Marc Trabsky is a Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University, Melbourne.