78 Pages
by
Routledge
78 Pages
by
Routledge
78 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century.
Its starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such an extent that death has become an epistemological problem for legal institutions. It explores how legal definitions of death are subject to the governing logic of economisation, how legal technologies for... Read more
1. Legal Epistemologies of Death 2. The Economisation of Death 3. Counting the Dead 4. Recycling the Corpse
Biography
Dr Marc Trabsky is an Associate Professor in Law at La Trobe University, Australia.
