Title Dissecting the criminal corpse : staging post-execution punishment in early modern England / Elizabeth T. Hurren.

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London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

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Description	1 online resource (1 PDF file (xxx, 312 pages)) : illustrations.
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Series	Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife
	Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	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 bull-necks, 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.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (November 7, 2016).
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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Subject	Hanging -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	Human dissection -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	Capital Punishment -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002203Q000266
	Dissection -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004210Q000266
	Cadaver. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002102
	Criminals -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D057237Q000266
	Cause of Death. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002423
	History, 18th Century. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049671
	History, 19th Century. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049672
	England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
	British and Irish history.
	European history.
	History of science.
	History.
	History: specific events and topics.
	Humanities.
	Mathematics and science.
	Regional and national history.
	Science: general issues.
	Social and cultural history.
	Hanging. (OCoLC)fst00951060
	Human dissection. (OCoLC)fst00962937
	England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Hurren, Elizabeth T. Dissecting the criminal corpse. London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016] 1137582480 9781137582485 (DLC) 2016943515 (OCoLC)934194867
ISBN	9781137582492 (eBook)
	1137582499 (eBook)
	9781137582485 (alkaline paper)
Standard No.	10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2 doi
ISBN	1137582480
	9781137582485

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