Dissecting the criminal corpse[elect...
Hurren, Elizabeth T.

 

  • Dissecting the criminal corpse[electronic resource] :staging post-execution punishment in early modern England /
  • 纪录类型: 书目-电子资源 : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414] null: 364.66094209033
    [NT 47271] Title/Author: Dissecting the criminal corpse : staging post-execution punishment in early modern England // by Elizabeth T. Hurren.
    作者: Hurren, Elizabeth T.
    出版者: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, 2016.
    面页册数: xxx, 326 p. : : ill., digital ;; 21 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    标题: Hanging - History - 18th century. - England
    标题: Human dissection - History - 18th century. - England
    标题: History.
    标题: History of Britain and Ireland.
    标题: History of Science.
    标题: Cultural History.
    ISBN: 9781137582492
    ISBN: 9781137582485
    [NT 15000228] null: 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.
    [NT 15000229] null: 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 cliche 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.
    电子资源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2
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