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When the Dead Rose in Britain: Premature Burial and the Misdiagnosis of Death During the Enlightenment

When the Dead Rose in Britain: Premature Burial and the Misdiagnosis of Death During the Enlightenment

Salomone, Nicole C.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceDeath & DyingBritish History

ISBN10: 1476682747
ISBN13: 9781476682747
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 14 2022
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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