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100	1		_aT. Hurren, Elizabeth, _eauthor
245		0	_aDissecting the Criminal Corpse
246			_aStaging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England
264		1	_aBasingstoke _bSpringer Nature _c2016
300			_a1 online resource (326 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490			_aPalgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
520			_aThose 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.
653			_aConvicts
653			_aEarly Modern England
653			_aGeorgian England
653			_aHomicide
653			_aMurderers
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