Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England /

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hurren, Elizabeth T. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XXX, 326 p. 35 illus., 22 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,
Subjects:
Great Britain > History.
Science > History.
Civilization > History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Science.
Cultural History.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
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