Chapter 19 Ambivalent Parallels in Registration and Certification of (Live) Birth, Stillbirth, and Miscarriage
Language
EnglishAbstract
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the 21st century. It showcases how socio-legal scholars have contributed to the critical turn in death studies and how the sociology of death has impacted upon the discipline of law. In bringing together prominent academics and emerging experts from a diverse range of disciplines, the Handbook shows how, far from shunning questions of mortality, legal institutions incessantly talk about death. Touching upon the epistemologies and materialities of death, and problems of contested deaths and posthumous harms, the Handbook questions what is distinctive about the disciplinary alignment of law and death, how law regulates and manages death in the everyday, and how thinking with law can enrich our understandings of the presence of death in our lives. In a time when the world is facing global inequalities in living and dying, and legal institutions are increasingly interrogating their relationships to death, this Handbook makes for essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners in law, humanities, and the social sciences.
Keywords
legal personhood,right to life,healthcare,graves,funerals,death penalty,suicide,racial violence,contested deathsDOI
10.4324/9781003304593-23ISBN
9781032303383, 9781032303390, 9781003304593Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2025Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Jurisprudence and general issues
Criminal law: procedure and offences
Public health and safety law
Sociology: death and dying