Dead famous and dead sexy: Popular culture, forensics, and the rise of the corpse

Mortality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-173

  Foltyn, Jacque Lynn ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadaver; Celebrity; Corpse; Death; DNA; Fame; Forensics; Immortality; Popular culture; Pornography; Sex; Simulated reality; The body

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749123202     PISSN: 13576275     EISSN: 14699885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576270801954468     Document Type: Article

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