Dissecting the Criminal Corpse (Record no. 92951)
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | T. Hurren, Elizabeth, |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Dissecting the Criminal Corpse |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Basingstoke |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Springer Nature |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (326 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 cliché 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. |
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| Uncontrolled term | Convicts |
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| Uncontrolled term | Early Modern England |
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| Uncontrolled term | Georgian England |
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| Uncontrolled term | Homicide |
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| Uncontrolled term | Murderers |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yKIrdCPDAG_9c22mwoOIO2DOhtj65Wqa/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106555315294820607512&rtpof=true&sd=true ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yKIrdCPDAG_9c22mwoOIO2DOhtj65Wqa/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106555315294820607512&rtpof=true&sd=true </a> |
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| Koha item type | E-Book |
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