It takes the average reader 5 hours and 33 minutes to read Dissecting the Criminal Corpse by Elizabeth T. Hurren
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Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crime studies. Some convicted murderers did survive execution in early modern England. Establishing medical death in the heart-lungs-brain was a physical enigma. Criminals had large bull-necks, strong...
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse by Elizabeth T. Hurren is 326 pages long, and a total of 83,456 words.
This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 36 minutes to read Dissecting the Criminal Corpse aloud.
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