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When the "Dead" Rose in Britain
- Premature Burial and the Misdiagnosis of Death During the Enlightenment
Engelsk Paperback
When the "Dead" Rose in Britain
- Premature Burial and the Misdiagnosis of Death During the Enlightenment
Engelsk Paperback

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Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind''s understanding of physiological death. Anchored in Early Modern Britain, it explains how evolving medical theories challenged the ambiguous definition of death, instigating anxieties over the newly realized potential for officials to mistake a person''s time of death. Fears of premature burials were materialized as newspapers across Europe printed hundreds of articles about people who had been misdiagnosed as dead and were then buried--or nearly buried--alive. These stories, tallied in this text, present the first contemporary statistic of how frequently misdiagnosed death led to premature burial during the eighteenth century.

The public consciousness of premature burial manifested itself in many ways, including the necessity of having a wake before a funeral and the creation of safety coffins. This book also explores the folkloric phenomenon of the rising dead and the stories that inspired a number of authors including Coleridge, Byron and Stoker, who blended medical understanding with fiction to create vampire literature.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
231
ISBN-13:
9781476682747
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1476682747
Udg. Dato:
14 jul 2022
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
226mm
Højde:
150mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
14 jul 2022
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