04159nam 22007935 450 991029979540332120251017110058.09783319779089331977908710.1007/978-3-319-77908-9(CKB)4100000004243826(DE-He213)978-3-319-77908-9(MiAaPQ)EBC5398383(Au-PeEL)EBL5398383(OCoLC)1050971329(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33039(Perlego)4369246(ODN)ODN0010069256(oapen)doab33039(DNLM)9917320413406676(EXLCZ)99410000000424382620180517d2018 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHarnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse /by Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman1st ed. 2018.2018Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (X, 273 p. 31 illus.)Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,2947-63569783319779072 3319779079 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.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.Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,2947-6356Great BritainHistoryScienceHistoryCrimeSociological aspectsSociologySocial historyHistory of Britain and IrelandHistory of ScienceCrime and SocietySociological TheorySocial HistoryGreat BritainHistory.ScienceHistory.CrimeSociological aspects.Sociology.Social history.History of Britain and Ireland.History of Science.Crime and Society.Sociological Theory.Social History.941HIS015000HIS054000SCI034000SOC004000SOC026000bisacshTarlow Sarah1967-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut865960Battell Lowman Emma1980-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910299795403321Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse1949979UNINA