Prescientific Death Rites, Vampires, and the Human Soul
For most of us in twentieth-first-century Europe and North America, few things are so absolute as death.
View ArticleThe Murder Act Dissections: A Fate Worse than Death
Anatomy, the branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, especially as revealed by dissection and the separation of parts.
View ArticleDissecting The Condemned Body Leaving the Courtroom
The widespread observation that contemporaries were often confused by the organic instability of death and dying, leads us to a second generic theme in this book.
View ArticleThe Hideous Rise and Fall of Celebrity, Murderous Pathology
What has happened to the thoughtful, bowler-hatted figure of the forensic pathologist, the spectacular but fallible artist of battered flesh?
View ArticleHunter’s Resurrection, Corpse Art, and the Stolen Irish Giant
In his portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786, the Irish Carver, the Giant’s skeletal feet are clearly visible in the background.
View ArticleThe Rise of Obscene Public Anatomy in Victorian London
Dr Joseph Kahn’s Anatomical and Pathological Museum was the nineteenth-century’s best-known and most visited public museum of anatomy.
View ArticleDeath, Burial Spaces and the Dead-House in Victorian Asylums
The later Victorian asylum was increasingly dominated by anatomical pathological mental science based on thousands of post-mortems conducted on the dead among captive patient populations.
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