Harnessing the power of the criminal corpse / Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman.
By: Tarlow, Sarah [author.]
Contributor(s): Battell Lowman, Emma [author.]
Language: English Series: Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife: Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (x, 273 pages)) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319779089; 3319779087Subject(s): 1700-1799 | History | Social history | Crime -- Sociological aspects | Historical sociology | Dead | Medicine -- History -- 18th century | Capital Punishment -- history | Dissection -- history | Cadaver | Criminals -- historyGenre/Form: Electronic books,DDC classification: 364.3 Online resources: Springer Nature | Full text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view. Abstract: This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 17, 2018).
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