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- catalog abstract ""Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales - just think of The Premature Burial - may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1880s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrible, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead." "With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. Jan Bondeson looks at legends from the Renaisance of thieves awakening supposedly deceased women when they try to steal the women's jewelry, as well as people awakening on the way to their funerals or even later in the graveyard. He then looks at the bizarre nineteenth-century security coffins with bellropes or escape hatches, and the macabre waiting mortuaries for decaying corpses, as well as the writers who were inspired to use themes as premature burial in their work. Finally, he questions whether our medical criteria today for determining if someone is dead are truly reliable."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12044385.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales - just think of The Premature Burial - may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1880s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrible, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead."".
- catalog description ""With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. Jan Bondeson looks at legends from the Renaisance of thieves awakening supposedly deceased women when they try to steal the women's jewelry, as well as people awakening on the way to their funerals or even later in the graveyard. He then looks at the bizarre nineteenth-century security coffins with bellropes or escape hatches, and the macabre waiting mortuaries for decaying corpses, as well as the writers who were inspired to use themes as premature burial in their work.".
- catalog description "Finally, he questions whether our medical criteria today for determining if someone is dead are truly reliable."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and index.".
- catalog description "Miracles of the dead -- The lady with the ring and the lecherous monk -- Winslow the anatomist and Bruhier the horror monger -- The eighteenth-century debate -- Hospitals for the dead -- Security coffins -- The signs of death -- Skeptical physiologists and raving spiritualists -- The final struggle -- Literary premature burials -- Were people really buried alive? -- Are people still being buried alive?".
- catalog extent "320 p. :".
- catalog identifier "039304906X".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog subject "2001 D-593".
- catalog subject "616.07/8 21".
- catalog subject "Burial, Premature.".
- catalog subject "Burial.".
- catalog subject "Death Proof and certification.".
- catalog subject "Death.".
- catalog subject "RA1063 .B66 2001".
- catalog subject "WA 846 B711b 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Miracles of the dead -- The lady with the ring and the lecherous monk -- Winslow the anatomist and Bruhier the horror monger -- The eighteenth-century debate -- Hospitals for the dead -- Security coffins -- The signs of death -- Skeptical physiologists and raving spiritualists -- The final struggle -- Literary premature burials -- Were people really buried alive? -- Are people still being buried alive?".
- catalog title "Buried alive : the terrifying history of our most primal fear / Jan Bondeson.".
- catalog type "text".