Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-19
Mått148 x 210 x 32 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Antal sidor326
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137582485

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Elizabeth T. Hurren is Reader in the Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester, UK, and an expert on the history of the body, medicine, poverty and welfare in Europe from early modern to modern times. She has published two major books since 2007, Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England and Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c. 1832 to 1929.

PART I: INTRODUCTION.- 1. The Condemned Body Leaving the Courtroom.- 2. Becoming Really Dead: Dying by Degrees.- 3. In Bad Shape: Sensing the Criminal Corpse.- PART II: PREAMBLE.- 4. Delivering Post-Mortem ‘Harm’: Cutting the Corpse.- 5. Mapping Punishment:Provincial Places to Dissect.- 6. The Disappearing Body: Dissection to the Extremities.- PART III: CONCLUSION.- 7. The Anatomical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse.-