Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in
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 earl
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DISSECTING THE CRIMINAL CORPSE Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England Elizabeth T. Hurren
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Series Editors Owen Davies University of Hertfordshire School of Humanities Hatfield, United Kingdom Elizabeth T. Hurren University of Leicester School of Historical Studies Leicester, United Kingdom Sarah Tarlow University of Leicester History and Archaeology Leicester, United Kingdom
Aim of the Series: This limited, finite series is based on the substantive outputs from a major, multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Wellcome Trust, investigating the meanings, treatment, and uses of the criminal corpse in Britain. It is a vehicle for methodological and substantive advances in approaches to the wider history of the body. Focussing on the period between the late seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries as a crucial period in the formation and transformation of beliefs about the body, the series explores how the criminal body had a prominent presence in popular culture as well as science, civic life and medico-legal activity. It is historically significant as the site of overlapping and sometimes contradictory understandings between scientific anatomy, criminal justice, popular medicine, and social geography.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14694
Elizabeth T. Hurren
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
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Elizabeth T. Hurren School of Historical Studies University of Leicester Leicester, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-58248-5 ISBN 978-1-137-58249-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2
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