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  • 标题:The Body in Grief: Death Investigations, Objections to Autopsy, and the Religious and Cultural ‘Other’
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  • 作者:Belinda Carpenter ; Gordon Tait ; Carol Quadrelli
  • 期刊名称:Religions
  • 电子版ISSN:2077-1444
  • 出版年度:2014
  • 卷号:5
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:165-178
  • DOI:10.3390/rel5010165
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:MDPI Publishing
  • 摘要:Sudden, violent and otherwise unexplained deaths are investigated in most western jurisdictions through a Coronial or medico-legal process. A crucial element of such an investigation is the legislative requirement to remove the body for autopsy and other medical interventions, processes which can disrupt traditional religious and cultural grieving practices. While recent legislative changes in an increasing number of jurisdictions allow families to raise objections based on religious and cultural grounds, such concerns can be over-ruled, often exacerbating the trauma and grief of families. Based on funded research which interviews a range of Coronial staff in one Australian jurisdiction, this paper explores the disjuncture between medico-legal discourses, which position the body as corpse, and the rise of more ‘therapeutic’ discourses which recognise the family’s wishes to reposition the body as beloved and lamented.
  • 关键词:body; religion; Indigenous; culture; death; sacred; grief; autopsy; coroner; Australia
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