EAN: 9783030085704

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This 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.

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