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100	1		_aTarlow, Sarah, _eauthor
245		0	_aHarnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
264		1	_aCham _bSpringer Nature _c2018
300			_a1 online resource (273 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			_aThis 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.
653			_aCrime-Sociological Aspects
653			_aGreat Britain-History
653			_aHistorical Sociology
653			_aHistory
653			_aHistory
700	1		_aBattell Lowman, Emma
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