Publication year: 2018
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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.
Kitabu hiki cha upatikanaji wazi ni kilele cha miaka mingi ya utafiti juu ya kile kilichotokea kwa miili ya wahalifu waliouawa zamani. Katika karne ya kumi na nane na kumi na tisa, sheria ya mauaji ya 1752 ilifanywa. Mauaji hayo yalikuwa na umuhimu mkubwa katika historia ya dawa na historia ya uhalifu na pia yalikuwa na maana kubwa katika fasihi na utamaduni wa watu. Kuanzia na kuzingatia maiti ya wahalifu katika enzi za kati na mapema za kisasa, sura zinaendelea kupitia historia ya haki ya jinai, historia ya matibabu na gibbeting chini ya Sheria ya Mauaji, na kumalizika na majadiliano ya maisha ya baada ya maiti, katika fasihi, hadithi za watu na katika maadili ya kisasa ya matibabu. Kwa kutumia ufahamu wa kisasa kutoka historia ya utamaduni, akiolojia, fasihi, falsafa na maadili, pamoja na historia ya matibabu na uhalifu, kitabu hiki ni kipekee interdisciplinary kuchukua juu ya jambo la kihistoria ya kuvutia.