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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
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Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman

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.…

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978-3-319-77908-9
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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