Death by Marc Trabsky - 9781032119236

Taylor & Francis Ltd

DeathNew Trajectories in Law\nAuthor(s): Marc Trabsky\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032119236, 978-1032119236\nSynopsis\nThis book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. \n\nIts starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such an extent that death has become an epistemological problem for legal institutions. It explores how legal definitions of death are subject to the governing logic of economisation, how legal technologies for registering a death reshape what kind of deaths are counted during a pandemic, and how technologies for recycling cadaveric tissue problematise the legal status of the corpse. The question that unites each chapter is how legal institutions respond to technologies that bring death before their laws. The book argues for an interdisciplinary approach, informed by the writings of Georges Bataille, Wendy Brown, G.