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

by Nicole C. Salomone

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476682747
• ISBN13: 9781476682747
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up