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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

by Elizabeth T. Hurren

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 cor...


Global History and New Polycentric Approaches
Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

by Manuel Perez Garcia, Lucio De Sousa

Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its eme...


Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century

by Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby

This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the 'asylum and after' paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volum...


Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People
Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People

by Claire Hilton

This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards that she set out to make improvements. Barbara'...


The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

by Sarah Tarlow

This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting ('hanging in chains'), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging ...


Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum

by Jennifer Wallis

This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the 'truth' of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the cli...


Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

by Shane McCorristine

This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler's survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we...


Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

by Floris Tomasini

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this wa...


Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
Shaping Natural History and Settler Society

by Tanja Hammel

"Hammel successfully illuminates how the production and circulation of Barber's work was deeply affected by contemporary attitudes towards gender and race within the colonial context of the nineteenth-century Cape. This fascinating book is destined to become a landmark in the history of science in South Africa." —Nigel Penn, Unive...


Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

by Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman

This 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...


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