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Arts and Health Promotion Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation

This book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the ...

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Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834

This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...

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Executing Magic in the Modern Era

This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...

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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in ...

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean ...

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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...

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Reading Breath in Literature

This book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, ...

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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...

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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...

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