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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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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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