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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Sarah Tarlow and Emma Battell Lowman
2018
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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.
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Keywords
- British & Irish history
- Crime & criminology
- Crime—Sociological aspects
- European History
- Great Britain—History
- Historical sociology
- History
- history of science
- History: specific events & topics
- Humanities
- Mathematics & science
- Regional & national history
- Science: general issues
- Social & cultural history
- Social history
- Social services & welfare, criminology
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77908-9Editions