Thesis ID: CBB497616026

Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639-1790 (2018)

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Making the Body Speak considers how the voices of deceased people were extracted, interpreted, or stifled through forensic means, and how such practices formed the basis of an autoptic culture of testimonial retrieval in early America and the larger Atlantic world. My study takes place at the intersection of literary studies, religious studies, the history of medicine and the history of law. Reading inquest reports, print accounts, anatomy lectures, and execution sermons, I show that early Americans perceived postmortem investigations as collaborative acts between the bodies of the dead and their would-be interrogators, and that autoptic practices illuminate early American conceptions of the deceased body as subject, object, and witness.

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Authors & Contributors
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Bates, Alan W.H.
Gaeta, Raffaele
Tisci, Caterina
Duranti, Tommaso
Carnevale, Diego
Concepts
Death
Medicine
Anatomy
Autopsy
Forensic medicine
Medicine and law
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Medieval
19th century
16th century
Places
Europe
England
Italy
France
Oxford (England)
Naples (Italy)
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