Dissecting the criminal corpse [electronic resource] : staging post-execution punishment in early modern England

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Tác giả: Elizabeth T Hurren

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-1137582485

Ký hiệu phân loại: 364.660942 Penology

Thông tin xuất bản: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xxx, 312 pages)) : , illustrations.

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 117275

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 cliche 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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