About this book series

This limited, finite series is based on the substantive outputs from a major, multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Wellcome Trust, investigating the meanings, treatment, and uses of the criminal corpse in Britain. It is a vehicle for methodological and substantive advances in approaches to the wider history of the body. Focussing on the period between the late seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries as a crucial period in the formation and transformation of beliefs about the body, the series explores how the criminal body had a prominent presence in popular culture as well as science, civic life and medico-legal activity. It is historically significant as the site of overlapping and sometimes contradictory understandings between scientific anatomy, criminal justice, popular medicine, and social geography.

Electronic ISSN
2947-6356
Print ISSN
2947-6348
Series Editor
  • Owen Davies,
  • Elizabeth T. Hurren,
  • Sarah Tarlow

Book titles in this series

  1. Executing Magic in the Modern Era

    Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

    Authors:
    • Owen Davies
    • Francesca Matteoni
    • Open Access
    • Copyright: 2017

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • Soft cover
    • eBook