Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

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Title

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

Subject

Social & cultural history
British & Irish history

Description

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.

Creator

Tarlow, Sarah
Battell Lowman, Emma

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33039

Publisher

Springer Nature

Date

2018

Contributor

Wahyuni

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-77908-9
ISBN 978-3-319-77907-2
ISBN 978-3-319-77908-9 (eBook)

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