TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tarlow,Sarah
AU  - Battell Lowman,Emma
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
T2  - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
SN  - 9783319779089
AV  - DA1-995 
U1  - 941 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Great Britain—History
KW  - History
KW  - Crime—Sociological aspects
KW  - Historical sociology
KW  - Social history
KW  - History of Britain and Ireland
KW  - History of Science
KW  - Crime and Society
KW  - Historical Sociology
KW  - Social History
N1  - SECTION ONE: THE CRIMINAL CORPSE IN HISTORY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Power of the Criminal Corpse in the Medieval World -- 3. How was the Power of the Criminal Corpse Harnessed in Early Modern England? -- SECTION TWO: THE WORLD OF THE MURDER ACT -- 4. Murder and the Law, 1752-1832 -- 5. Anatomisation and Dissection -- 6. Hanging in Chains -- SECTION THREE: THE LEGACY OF THE CRIMINAL CORPSE -- 7. Seeking the Physical Remains of the Criminal Corpse -- 8. Folk Beliefs and Popular Tales -- 9. Conclusions: Ethics, Bullet Points and Other Ways of Telling -- Index; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77908-9
ER  -