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100 1 _aTarlow, Sarah
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700 1 _aBattell Lowman, Emma
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245 1 0 _aHarnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
260 _aCham
_bSpringer Nature
_c2018
300 _a1 electronic resource (273 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThis 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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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aBritish & Irish history
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650 7 _aSocial & cultural history
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650 7 _aCrime & criminology
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650 7 _aHistory of science
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653 _aHistory
653 _aGreat Britain—History
653 _aHistory
653 _aCrime—Sociological aspects
653 _aHistorical sociology
653 _aSocial history
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