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Hidden Histories of the Dead

Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

By: Elizabeth T. Hurren

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Hidden Histories of the Dead

Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

By: Elizabeth T. Hurren

Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108484093

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Protesting about Pauperism

Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900

By: Elizabeth T. Hurren

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Protesting about Pauperism

Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900

By: Elizabeth T. Hurren

The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented in response contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular being the crusade against outdoor relief, whereby the government sought to halt all welfare payments at home. Via a close case study of Brixworth union in Northamptonshire, Elizabeth T. Hurren looks at what happened to those impoverished men and women who struggled to live independently in a world without welfare outside of the workhouse.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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086193329X

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9780861933297

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

By: Elizabeth T. Hurren

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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

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 corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crime studies. Some convicted murderers did survive execution in early modern England. Establishing medical death in the heart-lungs-brain was a physical enigma. Criminals had large bull-necks, strong willpowers, and hearty survival instincts. Extreme hypothermia often disguised coma in a prisoner hanged in the winter cold. The youngest and fittest were capable of reviving on the dissection table. Many died under the lancet. Capital legislation disguised a complex medical choreography that surgeons staged. They broke the Hippocratic Oath by executing the Dangerous Dead across England from 1752 until 1832. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.

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Springer

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1137582499

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Hidden Histories of the Dead

Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

By: Elizabeth T. Hurren

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Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

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In this discipline-redefining book, Elizabeth T. Hurren maps the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains, inside the secretive culture of modern British medical research after WWII as the bodies of the deceased were harvested as bio-commons. Often the human stories behind these bodies were dissected, discarded, or destroyed in death. Hidden Histories of the Dead recovers human faces and supply-lines in the archives that medical science neglected to acknowledge. It investigates the medical ethics of organ donation, the legal ambiguities of a lack of fully-informed consent and the shifting boundaries of life and re-defining of medical death in a biotechnological era. Hurren reveals the implicit, explicit and missed body disputes that took second-place to the economics of the national and international commodification of human material in global medical sciences of the Genome era. This title is also available as Open Access.

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1108625339

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Hidden Histories of the Dead

Hidden Histories of the Dead

Protesting about Pauperism

Protesting about Pauperism

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

Hidden Histories of the Dead

Hidden Histories of the Dead

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