Helen MacDonald is Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy (2010) and Human Remains: Dissection and its Histories (2006), which won the biennial Victorian Premier's Literary Award for a First Book of History and was short-listed for the Ernest Scott History Prize.

• Introduction1. Dead and Dying Bodies, Christopher Hamlin, (University of Notre Dame, USA)2. The Sensory Aesthetics of Death, Elizabeth Hallam, (University of Oxford, UK)3. Emotions, Mortality and Vitality, Julie-Marie Strange, (Durham University, UK)4. Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance, Rebekah Lee, (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)5. Sites, Power and Politics of Death, Thomas Laqueur, (University of California, Berkeley, USA)6. Gender, Age and Identity, Andrea Major, (University of Leeds, UK)7. Explaining Death: Belief, Law and Ethics, Patrick Brantlinger, (Indiana University, USA)8. The Undead and Eternal, Helen MacDonald, (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)BibliographyNotesIndex

Helen MacDonald is Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy (2010) and Human Remains: Dissection and its Histories (2006), which won the biennial Victorian Premier's Literary Award for a First Book of History and was short-listed for the Ernest Scott History Prize.

• Introduction1. Dead and Dying Bodies, Christopher Hamlin, (University of Notre Dame, USA)2. The Sensory Aesthetics of Death, Elizabeth Hallam, (University of Oxford, UK)3. Emotions, Mortality and Vitality, Julie-Marie Strange, (Durham University, UK)4. Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance, Rebekah Lee, (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)5. Sites, Power and Politics of Death, Thomas Laqueur, (University of California, Berkeley, USA)6. Gender, Age and Identity, Andrea Major, (University of Leeds, UK)7. Explaining Death: Belief, Law and Ethics, Patrick Brantlinger, (Indiana University, USA)8. The Undead and Eternal, Helen MacDonald, (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)BibliographyNotesIndex

Helen MacDonald is Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy (2010) and Human Remains: Dissection and its Histories (2006), which won the biennial Victorian Premier's Literary Award for a First Book of History and was short-listed for the Ernest Scott History Prize.

• Introduction1. Dead and Dying Bodies, Christopher Hamlin, (University of Notre Dame, USA)2. The Sensory Aesthetics of Death, Elizabeth Hallam, (University of Oxford, UK)3. Emotions, Mortality and Vitality, Julie-Marie Strange, (Durham University, UK)4. Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance, Rebekah Lee, (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)5. Sites, Power and Politics of Death, Thomas Laqueur, (University of California, Berkeley, USA)6. Gender, Age and Identity, Andrea Major, (University of Leeds, UK)7. Explaining Death: Belief, Law and Ethics, Patrick Brantlinger, (Indiana University, USA)8. The Undead and Eternal, Helen MacDonald, (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)BibliographyNotesIndex