Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse - Couverture rigide

Battell Lowman, Emma; Tarlow, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 101327377X ISBN 13 : 9781013273773

Editeur : Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Saint Philip Street Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 101327377X
• ISBN 13: 9781013273773
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible