Courting death : the law of mortality / edited by Desmond Manderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manderson, Desmond.

Series:

Law and social theory.

Law and social theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead--Legal status, laws, etc.

Dead.

Death.

Capital punishment.

Euthanasia.

Dead bodies (Law).

Physical Description:

viii, 238 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fist major international study of the relationship between death and the law - one of the most perplexing and understudied aspects of the legal system.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Tales from the Crypt - A Metaphor, An Image, A Story

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES

Part One. In Extremis

1. Death as the Horizon of the Law

INTRODUCTION: LIMITING THE LAW

SCENES FROM THE EXECUTION

DEATH AND THE DECOMPOSITION OF JUDICIAL DISCOURSE

CONCLUSION: THE LIMITLESS LIMIT

2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of Süssmayr

INTRODUCTION

A

I

II

B

C

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life

DOING DEATH SILENTLY, INVISIBLY

ON THE INVISIBLE BODY OF THE CONDEMNED

THE 'BODY IN PAIN'

4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia

ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: A POEM, AND AN ESSAY ON POETRY

Part Two. Post Mortem

5. 'But a Lump of Earth'?: The Legal Status of the Corpse

A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CORPSE

Enter the Body Snatchers

The 'Right' of Burial: Possession and Disposal of the Corpse

More Property than Person?

THEORISING THE CORPSE

POSTSCRIPT: A COHERENT VIEW OF THE COMPLETE PERSON?

6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death or How Long Can I Stay?

ARCHAEOLOGY AND ABORIGINAL REMAINS

THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND TO THE LAW OF BODILY REMAINS

AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES

CHARACTERISING THE RIGHT TO REMAIN ONCE BURIED

ABORIGINAL VIEWS

RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH ARCHAEOLOGY

LEGAL CONTROL OF ABORIGINAL BURIAL SITES

LAW, PERCEPTIONS OF MORTALITY AND THE FUTURE

7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?: Inquiring into Pitjantjatjara Deaths

DEATH AND THE POLICE.

DEATH AND THE PITJANTJATJARA

Ritual Inquest: The Aboriginal Coronial Method

The Process of Ritual Inquest

CONCLUSION: DID HE FALL OR WAS HE PUSHED?

8. Pro Patria Mori: Law, Reconciliation and the Nation

Part Three. Memento Mori

9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos

III

IV

10. The Ethical Obligation to Show Allegiance to the Un- knowable

THE DEATH OF MY OTHER AND THE SURVIVING ME: : NONSENSE AND SENSIBILITY

LEGAL VISION AND THE APPROPRIATION OF DEATH S ABSURDITY

THE OTHER AS 'LIVING-THING' AND LEGAL CLOSURE

BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE OF THE LIVING- THING : RUPTURE OF LEGAL CLOSURE

11. Stephen Dedalus' Magic Words: Death and the Law between James Joyce and Pierre Legendre

INSTITUTING LAW: DEATH, DESIRE AND THE VOID

WRITING AND THE CONSTITUTING VOID: THE EPIPHANY

DEATH AND A Portrait

WRITING THE REVOLT

'THE DEAD: DEATH, LOVE AND THE COUNTER- LAW

ENDNOTE

12. Courting Death

Notes on Contributors

Index

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 [Cth]

112

120-1

Aboriginal peoples

111-23

128-45

burial 11-3

burial 118-23

corpse 106

corpse 118-9

inquest 135-41

inquest 142-5

aesthetics, in and of law

37-40

46-7

79-85

88-9

194-6

212

220

223-7

230

Airedale NSW Trust v Bland 184-90

Aladjem, Terry 69-70

alterity

2

168-79

181-90

196-8

Anatomy Act 1832 [UK]

99-100

114

Anderson, Benedict 148

Andrews v R 35

Antigone

14

163-79

archaeology

112-3

119-20

Ariès, Philippe

6

41

Asmal, Kader 150

ate 173

Attia v British Gas 95

Australian Museum 113

Barrès, Maurice 148

Barton, Justice 103.

Bataille, Georges 181

Bauman, Zygmund 148

Beckett, Samuel

Bedau, Hugo 58

Beezer, Judge

62

64

65

Being [see also Heidegger]

163-4

164-8

172

177-9

181-2

188-90

Benjamin, Walter 178

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 [UK] 131

Black, George Murray 113

Blackmun, Justice

28

69

Blackstone, William 97-8

Blanchot, Maurice

12

19-20

Bland, Anthony 184-90

Boccaccio 219-20

Bourdieu, Pierre 47

Brennan, Justice 41

Britten, Benjamin 41

burial

8-9

104

152-3

Burton, Justice 61

Butterworth, Robert 53

Callins v Collins

Campbell v Wood

63

67

Camperdown Cemetery Act 1948 [NSW]

117

Capellanus, Andreas 218

carrion

116

122

cemetery

112-4

114-8

classicism, law and

closure, law as

19-50

185

Coke, Edward 97

community

43

80-1

86-7

151

153-8

Conversion of Cemeteries Act 1974 [NSW] 116

Coroner's Act 1887 [UK] 131-2

corpse

148-9

legal history of 96-103

legal history of 113-8

legal status of 104-6

legal status of 122-3

Cover, Robert 39

Craig, Jackson, Lisa, and family 128-45

Creon 175-6

Critchley, Simon 2

Cruzan 184

crypt

3-4

11

15

de Certeau, Michel 53

death penalty, history

21-5

56-9

jurisprudence 25-30

jurisprudence 59-68

techniques 54-6

techniques 58-68

Derrida, Jacques

5-6

9

36

dike

167-8

173

176-7

Doodeward v Spence

102-3

118

Dworkin, Ronald

81

85

Elias, Norbert 1

ethics

2-15

77-81

84-5

88

euthanasia

8

78-81

84-89

Evans, Richard

21

24

Eyre, Chief Baron

35

38

44

Fierro v Gomez

69.

finality, law and 28-30

Fish, Stanley 187-8

Fitzpatrick, Peter 4

formalism and positivism in law

45-50

227

Foucault, Michel

56

59

Francis v Resweber

60-1

Francis, Willie 60-1

Freud, Sigmund

163

176

201

Gatrell, VAC

23

Geertz, Clifford 145

Gibbs, Chief Justice 119

Gilbert v Buzzard

Gittings, Clare 98

Goff, Lord

190

Gonzalez v Metro Dade 95-6

Griffith, Chief Justice 102

Hale, Matthew 97

Hay, Douglas 39

Haynes' Case

96-7

Heaney, Seamus 83-9

hearsay, dying declarations and 34-50

Hegel, GWF

168-9

Heidegger, Martin

163-8

177-8

Herrera v Collins 28

High Court of Love 224-5

Huchet, Jean-Charles 227

Hyde, Alan 68

Ignatieff, Michael

155

157

Illich, Ivan 6

immortality

11-13

153-9

In re Kemmler 59

inquest, coronial

128

130-5

142-5

Aboriginal peoples 135-41

Aboriginal peoples 142-5

January, Michael

154

156

Johnson, Richard 57

Joyce, James

194-212

Portrait of the Artist 195-6

Portrait of the Artist 199

Portrait of the Artist 202-9

The Dead 209-12

justice

50

157-9

179

Kafka, Franz 4

Kavanagh, Patrick 83-7

Keith, Lord 185-90

Kemmler, William 53

Kojeve, Alexander 168-9

Lacan, Jacques

168

169-74

Lange, Dorothea 1

law

as death 164-8

as death 196-207

as desire 168-72

as desire 187-8

as desire 196-8

Legendre, Pierre

194-8

204

208

limit

19-21

30

164

178

Locke, John

115

Lockhart, Justice 118

logos

172-3

love

158-9

173-5

201-2

207-12

216-30

Lyotard, Jean-François 156

Lévinas, Emmanuel

181-4

188-90.

Mabo v Queensland [No.2 ] 122

Machetti v Linham 29

MacPherson, CB 114

McCleskey v Kemp 29

McLoughlin v O'Brien 95-6

Medina, Pedro

53-5

70

memory

13-14

149-50

152-8

223-4

Milirrpum v Nabalco 122

Mohammed, Justice 151-2

mourning

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

43-50

Murder Act 1752 [UK] 96

Murdoch, Iris 80

Mustil, Lord 185

narrative

84-8

nation 148-59

National Parks and Wildlife Act [1974 NSW]

120

Nietzsche, Friedrich 163

nomos

40

Oedipus

169-70

Onus v Alcoa of Australia 119

Ovid

196-7

217

Owen, Wilfrid 148-9

Patel, Judge 64-5

Persistent Vegetative State 183-90

personhood, concepts of

6-7

83-6

89

103-6

114-5

122-3

164-79

182-90

228-9

Phedon 183

Pierce v Proprietors of Swan 100-1

R v Lynn 99

R v Price 100

R v Sharpe 101

R v Stewart 100

R v Woodcock

34-5

49

Ratten v R 35

reconciliation

148-59

Reed, Justice 60-1

Reinhardt, Judge 63-5

religion

11-3

194-5

197-207

216-7

Renan, E 157

responsibility

26-8

risk, in love and death

217-20

ritual, law and

47-9

135-40

Rose, Gillian

13

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

137

140

Sansom, Basil

138

141

Sawyer v Whitley 28

Scalia, Justice 69

Scarry, Elaine 66-7

Simmonds, Nigel 87

Smith v Kemp 29

Smith, Adam 53

Song of Ignorance 221-3

Stallworthy, Jon 81-3

Stevens, Justice 184

Stotz, Gertrude 137

Strauss, Ricard 42

suffering

61-8

85-6

223

suicide

Süssmayr, Franz Xavier

Tasmanian Dams Case 121

thanatos

220.

time.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640190

184964019X

9780585425979

0585425973

OCLC:

923330145