Suchergebnisse

Writing the dead : text and commemoration in Anglo-Saxon England / Jill Hamilton Clements -- From powerful agents to subordinate objects? : the restless dead in 13th- and 14th-century Iceland / Kirsi Kanerva -- Animated corpses and bodies with power in the scholastic age / Winston Black -- Women, dance, death, and lament in medieval Spain and the Mediterranean : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim examples / Cynthia Sautter -- Wills and testaments / Francine Michaud -- Spectacular death : capital punishment in medieval English towns / James Davis -- Ghostly knights : kings' funerals in 14th century Europe and the emergence of an international style / Mikhail A. Boytsov -- Death of clergymen : popes and cardinals' death rituals / Joëlle Rollo-Koster -- A dead zone in the historiography of death in the Middle Ages : the sentiment of suspicious death / Franck Collard -- Registering deaths and causes of death in late medieval Milan / Ann G. Carmichael

A strictly biological definition of death as a specific event is both possible & socially desirable. Contrary to L. C. Becker (see SA 24:5/76I1544), brain-stem death, as defined by the Harvard Committee of 1968, provides a satisfactory definition of death, since it provides as equally valid a yardstick as the conventional criteria of cessation of respiration & of the heartbeats. The convergence of transplant surgery with extraordinary methods of resuscitation has led to considerable confusion concerning the boundaries of life & has placed the issue of an alternative biological criterion of death in the foreground of public interest. The concept of a biological definition of death is defended against proposals to redefine death in terms of social, economic, or morally relevant criteria. The criteria for diagnosing death, being strictly biological, must be distinguished from discussions concerning the quality of residual life & decisions as to when, if ever, the existence of a living being should be terminated. Following a survey of changing attitudes toward the traditional diagnosis of death within the medical profession, the actual criteria for the diagnosis of brain-stem death is examined & then defended against the accusation that any departure from criteria based on the cessation of the heart & respiratory organs must constitute an "artificial advancement of death." AA.

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First session: Programs -- Second session: Logic of the living (She the Living) -- Third session: Transition (Oedipus's Faux Pas) -- Fourth session: The logic of the supplement: the supplement of the other, of death, of meaning, of life -- Fifth session: The indefatigable -- Sixth session: The "limping" model: the story of the Colossus -- Seventh session: [no title] -- Eighth Session: Cause ("Nietzsche") -- Ninth session: Of interpretation -- Tenth session: Thinking the division of labor-and the contagion of the proper name -- Eleventh session: The escalade-of the devil in person -- Twelfth session: Freud's leg(acies) -- Thirteenth session: Sidestep detour: thesis, hypothesis, prosthesis -- Fourteenth session: Tightenings.