Dissecting the Criminal Corpse - Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England - Elizabeth T. Hurren - Hardback Bog - Palgrave Macmillan -

Description

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.