Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse is the research blog sharing findings and research experiences from the Wellcome Trust funded project investigating the social, symbolic, medicinal, judicial, political and scientific power of the criminal corpse. Our project team, working from the disciplines of archaeology, medical and criminal history, folklore, literature and philosophy, will post regularly on the ways in which the power of the criminal corpse was harnessed, by whom, and to what ends in Britain between the late seventeenth and twentieth centuries.
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- Canadian History Roundup – Week of September 18, 2016 | Unwritten Histories on The Diary of a Dissection: Jane Jamieson and the Newcastle Barber Surgeons. By Patrick Low
- Dismemberment in Victorian London: The Thames Torso Murders. By Shane McCorristine on Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine
- Samuel Abreu on The Bloody Business of the Bloody Code: Dissecting the Criminal Corpse. By Elizabeth Hurren
- Francesca Matteoni: The Geography of the Criminal Corpse: Magic, therapies and bodily pieces across Europe on Writing the Magic of the Criminal Corpse. By Owen Davies
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