Art and epigram regarding science and medicine in relation to death

Abstract Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continuing to in...

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connected, dying is still a part of life...

Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the storie...

There is an underlying structural bond between medicine and religious monotheism. There are shared assumptions, values, and institutional structures that create a deep underlying u...

How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with co...

The movement from the Renaissance to the early modern period may have been one of the most tumultuous times in the history of the western world. Everything, sacred and profane, was...

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty. Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? InAgainst the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Bre...

The core of the text of this book combines the theory and practice of determining brain death. The history and development of clinical criteria of brain death is revisited. The com...