Buried Alive : The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear 039304906X
Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales -- just think of The Premature Burial -- may comfort themselves with the notion
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English Pages [321] Year 2001
Table of contents :
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
I. Miracles of the Dead
II. The Lady with the Ring and the Lecherous Monk
III. Winslow the Anatomist and Brunier the Horror Monger
IV. The Eighteenth-Century Debate
V. Hospitals for the Dead
VI. Security Coffins
VII. The Signs of Death
VIII. Skeptical Physiologists and Raving Spiritualists
IX. The Final Struggle
X. Literary Premature Burials
XI. Were People Really Buried Alive?
XII. Are People Still Being Buried Alive?
Notes
Index
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
I. Miracles of the Dead
II. The Lady with the Ring and the Lecherous Monk
III. Winslow the Anatomist and Brunier the Horror Monger
IV. The Eighteenth-Century Debate
V. Hospitals for the Dead
VI. Security Coffins
VII. The Signs of Death
VIII. Skeptical Physiologists and Raving Spiritualists
IX. The Final Struggle
X. Literary Premature Burials
XI. Were People Really Buried Alive?
XII. Are People Still Being Buried Alive?
Notes
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Jan Bondeson
- Commentary
- Double pages split + scan cleaned + TOC added (was: FE4269AC6431595C7F5EFE3FB807DDBC)
