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Mummies, cannibals and vampires : the history of corpse medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians / Richard Sugg

Author
Sugg, Richard, 1969-
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Description
443 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.The Middle Ages to the Civil War -- 2.The Civil War to the eighteenth century -- 3.The bloody harvest: Sources of human body parts -- 4.The other cannibals: Man-eaters of the New World -- 5.Dirty history, filthy medicine -- 6.Eating the soul -- 7.Opposition and ambivalence: Pre-eighteenth century -- 8.The eighteenth century -- Conclusion: Afterlives.
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9781138933989 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1138933988 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781138934009 (paperback alkaline paper)
1138934003 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781315666365 (electronic book)
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Companion website with additional resources.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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