04022oam 22006733u 450 991013654760332120231121193017.09781137582492113758249910.1057/978-1-137-58249-2(CKB)3710000000838168(DE-He213)978-1-137-58249-2(OCoLC)960707581(MiAaPQ)EBC4720665(Au-PeEL)EBL4720665(CaPaEBR)ebr11284943(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31578(MiAaPQ)EBC31727428(Au-PeEL)EBL31727428(OCoLC)967626082(EXLCZ)99371000000083816820160817d2016 u| 0engurmn#nnn|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England /by Elizabeth T. Hurren1st ed. 2016.BasingstokeSpringer Nature2016London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (xxx, 326 pages) illustrations (some colour), 1 mapPalgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife9781137582485 1137582480 Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and index.PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Condemned Body Leaving the Courtroom -- 2. Becoming Really Dead: Dying by Degrees -- 3. In Bad Shape: Sensing the Criminal Corpse -- PART II: PREAMBLE -- 4. Delivering Post-Mortem ‘Harm’: Cutting the Corpse -- 5. Mapping Punishment:Provincial Places to Dissect -- 6. The Disappearing Body: Dissection to the Extremities -- PART III: CONCLUSION -- 7. The Anatomical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse -- .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 early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crime studies. Some convicted murderers did survive execution in early modern England. Establishing medical death in the heart-lungs-brain was a physical enigma. Criminals had large bullnecks, strong willpowers, and hearty survival instincts. Extreme hypothermia often disguised coma in a prisoner hanged in the winter cold. The youngest and fittest were capable of reviving on the dissection table. Many died under the lancet. Capital legislation disguised a complex medical choreography that surgeons staged. They broke the Hippocratic Oath by executing the Dangerous Dead across England from 1752 until 1832. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its AfterlifeGreat Britain—HistoryHistoryCivilization—HistoryHistory of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020History of Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000Cultural Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000EnglandfastGreat Britain—History.History.Civilization—History.History of Britain and Ireland.History of Science.Cultural History.364.66094209033Hurren Elizabeth Tauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1103701UkMaJRUBOOK9910136547603321Dissecting the Criminal Corpse3593213UNINA