{"product_id":"harnessing-the-power-of-the-emma-battell-lowman-9781013273773","title":"Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emma Battell Lowman, Sarah Tarlow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 101327377X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781013273773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Saint Philip Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Emma Battell Lowman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943643939071,"sku":"9781013273773","price":58.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a16c4416-fdad-423c-b2fd-df7cf1a6292d.jpg?v=1681499250","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/harnessing-the-power-of-the-emma-battell-lowman-9781013273773","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}