Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse by Sarah Tarlow & Emma Battell Lowman

Author:Sarah Tarlow & Emma Battell Lowman
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Though constrained by the terms of their official role, public expectations, social hierarchies, and the limited period during which bodies remained useful for anatomical work, medical men nonetheless exercised a degree of discretion. 65 Thus, as Peter King has observed, ‘justice was remade from the margins of eighteenth century society’, 66 not in a central location in London, but in the provinces where a penal surgeon’s reputation was made, remade and sometimes broken, in ways to which we now turn.

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