Representing alkaline hydrolysis: a material-semiotic analysis of an alternative to burial and cremation.
Alkaline hydrolysis can lay claim to being a resource-efficient, effective, economical and environmentally sound method of final body disposition, relative to burial and cremation. On technical grounds it may have much to recommend it, however, like many other technical innovations, its take-up is h...
| Publicado en: | Mortality Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 447 - 466 |
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