Readers Of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales - Just Think Of The Premature Burial - May Comfort Themselves With The Notion That Poe Must Have Exaggerated: Surely People Of The 1880s Could Not Have Been At Risk Of Being Buried Alive? But Such Stories Filled Medical Journals As Well As Fiction, And Fear In The Populace Was High. It Was Speculated, From The Number Of Skeletons Found In Horrible, Contorted Positions Inside Their Coffins, That Ten Out Of Every One Hundred People Were Buried Before They Were Dead. With Over Fifty Illustrations, Buried Alive Explores The Medicine, Folklore, History, And Literature Of Europe And The United States To Uncover Why Such Fears Arose And Whether They Were Warranted. Jan Bondeson Looks At Legends From The Renaisance Of Thieves Awakening Supposedly Deceased Women When They Try To Steal The Women's Jewelry, As Well As People Awakening On The Way To Their Funerals Or Even Later In The Graveyard. He Then Looks At The Bizarre Nineteenth-century Security Coffins With Bellropes Or Escape Hatches, And The Macabre Waiting Mortuaries For Decaying Corpses, As Well As The Writers Who Were Inspired To Use Themes As Premature Burial In Their Work. Finally, He Questions Whether Our Medical Criteria Today For Determining If Someone Is Dead Are Truly Reliable.--jacket. Miracles Of The Dead -- The Lady With The Ring And The Lecherous Monk -- Winslow The Anatomist And Bruhier The Horror Monger -- The Eighteenth-century Debate -- Hospitals For The Dead -- Security Coffins -- The Signs Of Death -- Skeptical Physiologists And Raving Spiritualists -- The Final Struggle -- Literary Premature Burials -- Were People Really Buried Alive? -- Are People Still Being Buried Alive? Jan Bondeson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 283-308) And Index.

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Bondeson, Jan

Norton Professional Books

United States, United States of America

New York, 2002

March 2001

1, 2001

0

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Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Introduction
2. (p2) I. MIRACLES OF THE DEAD
3. (p3) II. THE LADY WITH THE RING AND THE LECHEROUS MONK
4. (p4) III. WINSLOW THE ANATOMIST AND BRUHIER THE HORROR MONGER
5. (p5) IV. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DEBATE
6. (p6) V. HOSPITALS FOR THE DEAD
7. (p7) VI. SECURITY COFFINS
8. (p8) VII. THE SIGNS OF DEATH
9. (p9) VIII. SKEPTICAL PHYSIOLOGISTS AND RAVING SPIRITUALISTS
10. (p10) IX. THE FINAL STRUGGLE
11. (p11) X. LITERARY PREMATURE BURIALS
12. (p12) XI. WERE PEOPLE REALLY BURIED ALIVE?
13. (p13) XII. ARE PEOPLE STILL BEING BURIED ALIVE?
14. (p14) Notes
15. (p15) Index

In the 1800s the number of contorted skeletons found in coffins led to speculation that they were buried alive. This study brings to light the various ways people ensured they were really dead before burial. It also questions whether 21st-century criteria for determining death are reliable.

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