Introduction Chapter One: The Middle Ages to the Civil War Chapter Two: The Civil War to the Eighteenth Century Chapter Three: The Bloody Harvest: Sources of Human Body Parts Chapter Four: The Other Cannibals: Man-eaters of the New World Chapter Five: Dirty History, Filthy Medicine Chapter Six: Eating the Soul Chapter Seven: Opposition and Ambivalence: pre-Eighteenth Century Chapter Eight: The Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Afterlives
Richard Sugg is lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Durham. His previous publications include: John Donne (Palgrave, 2007), Murder After Death (Cornell, 2007), The Smoke of the Soul (Palgrave, 2013), and The Secret History of the Soul (Cambridge Scholars, 2013). He has just completed his sixth book, The Real Vampires.
Praise of this edition: "Richard Sugg’s excellent book opens up a
lost world of magic and medicine. This rich and authoritative
account of beliefs about the medical efficacy of dead bodies is a
fascinating, if gruesome, eye-opener."
John Henry, University of Edinburgh, UK"Richard Sugg has written a
thorough and engaging examination of pre-modern corpse medicine,
paying special attention to literary and cultural history. The new
edition with its expanded online content makes this book equally
appealing to advanced scholars and students of history, medicine,
and literature. It is an excellent edition for graduate and
undergraduate classroom use."
Miriam Jacobson, University of Georgia, USA"Richard Sugg’s book
Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires is valuable to both survey student
and specialist alike. The book’s breadth, from Renaissance to
Victorian society, is impressive but it is the work’s macabre
details which rivets readers to recorded medical uses of the human
body."
Charles Levine, Mesa Community College, USAPraise of the previous
edition: 'This book is full of rich detail, making you both recoil
and yet read on, fascinated by our ancestors’ imaginative ways to
try and heal the sick. ' – Cotswold History Blog"I do not write
this lightly - Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of
Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians is one of
the most eye-opening and phenomenal books I have ever read. It is
incredibly well researched, well written and states the case of
medicinal cannibalism throughout the ages with great detail and
reference. There is no other book like it and I feel so fortunate
to have it upon my shelf...It would be a fantastic book to
accompany a college class of the same subject." - Amazon.com
Customer Review, 5 Stars"Sugg's book offers itself as a 'history'
of corpse medicine. Though it is the work of a well-known literary
scholar, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires invokes imaginative
writing only to augment the evidence it draws from medical and
scientific texts... Sugg's interest in corpse medicine reaches well
beyond mumia to inspect all those strange concoctions of human
tissue and waste favoured by early modern pharmacology"– Michael
Neill, London Review of Books.
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