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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494733503321

Titolo

Law and Mourning / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2017

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-61376-530-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 177 pages )

Collana

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Disciplina

393/.9

Soggetti

Law - Social aspects - United States

Mourning customs - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas -- Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff -- The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi -- To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady -- Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini -- Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Achreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders -- Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.