Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
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 Cor...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-340902025-01-24T02:50:54Z Dissecting the Criminal Corpse T. Hurren, Elizabeth georgian england convicts murderers homicide early modern england murder act crime studies Anatomy Autopsy Capital punishment Dissection Gallows Hanging London Surgeons' Hall Surgery thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T13:58:20Z 2016 book 617339 OCN: 967626082 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32102 9781137582485 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34090 eng Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32102/1/617339.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32102/1/617339.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32102/1/617339.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32102/1/617339.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2 10.1057/978-1-137-58249-2 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Chapter Bibliography Chapter PART II: PREAMBLE Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the Corpse Chapter 1 The Condemned Body Leaving the Courtroom Chapter Preface Chapter 3 In Bad Shape: Sensing the Criminal Corpse Chapter PART I: Introduction Chapter Abbreviations Chapter 6 The Disappearing Body: Dissection to the Extremities Chapter 2 Becoming Really Dead: Dying by Degrees Chapter 5 Mapping Punishment: Provincial Places to Dissect Chapter 7 He that Hath an Ill-Name Is Half-Hanged: The Anatomical Legacy of the Criminal Corpse Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781137582485 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 326 Basingstoke 095904 open access |
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