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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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Autor principal: Hurren, Elizabeth T. (Autor)
Autor corporatiu: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Col·lecció:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Matèries:
History.
Great Britain > History.
Civilization > History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Science.
Cultural History.
Accés en línia:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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
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