EAN: 9783030085704

PALGRAVE HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE CRIMINAL COR...

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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