The Body of Evidence : Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction Corpses, Evidence and Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age -- Part 1 From Divination to Autopsy -- Chapter 1 Saving the Phenomenon: Why Corpses Bled in the Presence of Their Murderer in Early Modern Science -- Chapter 2 Unfamiliar Faces: the Identification of Corpses in Late Medieval Valencia -- Chapter 3 Reading the Corpse in the Late Middle Ages (Bologna, Mid-13th Century-Early 16th Century) -- Part 2 The Uncertainties of the Anatomical Gaze -- Chapter 4 Dissection Techniques, Forensics and Anatomy in the 16th Century -- Chapter 5 Monstrous Exegesis: Opening Up Double Monsters in Early Modern Europe -- Chapter 6 Corpses, Contagion and Courage: Fear and the Inspection of Bodies in 17th-Century London -- Chapter 7 Knowledge from Bodies and Resistance to Anatomical Discourse (Padua, 16th-18th Centuries) -- Part 3 Corpses and Evidences -- Chapter 8 Reading Moral Conduct and Physical Characteristics: the Classification of Suicide in Early Modern Europe -- Chapter 9 Corpses and Confessions: Forensic Investigation and Infanticide in Early Modern Germany -- Chapter 10 Visum et Repertum: Medical Doctrine and Criminal Procedures in France and Naples (17th-18th Centuries) -- Chapter 11 Frightening Whirlpools: Drowning in France in the 18th Century -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the 'signs of the corpse', from necromancy to forensic medicine.

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