Chapter 3 In Bad Shape: Sensing the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

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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Main Author: T. Hurren, Elizabeth (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2016
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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