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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
Elizabeth T. Hurren
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Description for Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife. Num Pages: 356 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 22 colour illustrations, 6 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBTB; JKVP; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 Corpse takes issue with the historical cliche of corpses dangling from the hangman's rope in crime studies. Some convicted murderers did survive execution in early modern England. Establishing medical death in the heart-lungs-brain was a physical enigma. Criminals had large bull-necks, strong willpowers, and hearty survival instincts. Extreme hypothermia often disguised coma in ... Read more
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 Corpse takes issue with the historical cliche of corpses dangling from the hangman's rope in crime studies. Some convicted murderers did survive execution in early modern England. Establishing medical death in the heart-lungs-brain was a physical enigma. Criminals had large bull-necks, strong willpowers, and hearty survival instincts. Extreme hypothermia often disguised coma in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137582485
SKU
V9781137582485
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About Elizabeth T. Hurren
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: ... Read more
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