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Title
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse / by Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman.
ISBN
9783319779089
3319779087
3319779079
9783319779072
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 273 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-77908-9 doi
Call Number
HV8551 .T37 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.660941
941
Summary
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.
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Series
Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
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Print version: 9783319779072
SECTION ONE: THE CRIMINAL CORPSE IN HISTORY
1. Introduction
2. The Power of the Criminal Corpse in the Medieval World
3. How was the Power of the Criminal Corpse Harnessed in Early Modern England?
SECTION TWO: THE WORLD OF THE MURDER ACT
4. Murder and the Law, 1752-1832
5. Anatomisation and Dissection
6. Hanging in Chains
SECTION THREE: THE LEGACY OF THE CRIMINAL CORPSE
7. Seeking the Physical Remains of the Criminal Corpse
8. Folk Beliefs and Popular Tales
9. Conclusions: Ethics, Bullet Points and Other Ways of Telling
Index.
