Death Rites and Rights

Belinda Brooks-Gordon is a Reader in Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. Fatemeh Ebtehaj is associate member of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. Jonathan Herring is a Professor of Law at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College. Martin Johnson is Professor of Reproductive Sciences in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Research at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.

1 Introduction: Death Writes Martin Richards and Martin H Johnson Part 1: When and How We Die 2 The Meaning of Death P-L Chau and Jonathan Herring 3 Death, Euthanasia and the Medical Profession Emily Jackson 4 Criminalising Carers: Death Desires and Assisted Dying Outlaws Hazel Biggs 5 Is There a Human Right to Die? Antje Du Bois-Pedain Part 2: Rituals and Practices of Death 6 Religious Perspectives on the Afterlife: Origin, Development and Funeral Rituals in the Christian Tradition Peter C Jupp 7 Purgatory: The Beginning and the End Frank Woodman and Judith Middleton-Stewart 8 Rites, Rights, Writing: 'Tintern Abbey', Death and the Will Sarah Goodwin 9 Death, Ritual and Material Culture in South London Daniel Miller and Fiona Parrott 10 Death on the Edge of the Lifeworld: The (Mis-)Appropriation of (Post-)Modern Death Graham Scambler Part 3: Dealing with Bodies 11 'Hot' Homicides and the Role of Police-Suspect Interviews in the Investigation of Illegal Deaths Martin Innes 12 Property, Harm and the Corpse David Price 13 Crimes Against the Dead Jonathan Herring 14 Death and Tort Steve Hedley 15 An Anatomist's Perspective on the Human Tissue Act 2004 Joanne Wilton 16 Anatomical Bodies and Materials of Memory Elizabeth Hallam