Emma Battell Lowman / Sarah Tarlow
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
- Springer International Publishing
- 2018
- Taschenbuch
- 284 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030085704
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
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