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Dissecting the criminal corpse :staging post-execution punishment in early mo…
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 crim…
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- 9781137582492
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- 312p. : ill.
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- 364.66094209033 ELI d
Dissecting the criminal corpse :staging post-execution punishment in early mo…
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 crim…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781137582492
- Collation
- 312p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 364.66094209033 ELI d
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