When the "e;Dead"e; Rose in Britain
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...
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...
