Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England /
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. Dissecting the Criminal Cor...
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Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
Lingua: | inglese |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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Serie: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Accesso online: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2 |
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