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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England / / by Elizabeth T. Hurren



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Autore: Hurren Elizabeth T Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England / / by Elizabeth T. Hurren Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Basingstoke, : Springer Nature, 2016
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxx, 326 pages) : illustrations (some colour), 1 map
Disciplina: 364.66094209033
Soggetto topico: Great Britain—History
History
Civilization—History
History of Britain and Ireland
History of Science
Cultural History
Soggetto geografico: England
Soggetto non controllato: georgian england
convicts
murderers
homicide
early modern england
murder act
crime studies
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- .
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Dissecting the Criminal Corpse  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-58249-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910136547603321
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Serie: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife