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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第一著者: Hurren, Elizabeth T. (著者)
団体著者: SpringerLink (Online service)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
シリーズ:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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オンライン・アクセス:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2
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目次:
  • 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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