142 Pages
by
Routledge
141 Pages
by
Routledge
141 Pages
by
Routledge
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The governance 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. Law and the Dead writes a history of their institutional life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... Read more
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
Biography
Dr Marc Trabsky is a Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
The book was awarded the LSAANZ Book Prize 2019
