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326 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781137582485
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication date: 19 August 2016
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...
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326 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781137582485
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication date: 19 August 2016
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...