Author: David Walsh (Physician)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Premature Burial: Fact Or Fiction?
Author: David Walsh (Physician)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Premature Burial: Fact Or Fiction?
Author: David WalshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death, Apparent
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Buried Alive
Author: Jan BondesonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322224
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
During the 1800s, stories filled medical journals as well as fiction (Poe's "The Premature Burial") of people being buried before they actually died. Canvassing medical records of the time, the author presents an engrossing and witty history of the fear and facts of being buried alive. Illustrations.
Premature Burial and how it May be Prevented
Author: William TebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burial, Premature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Buried Alive
Author: Franz HartmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burial
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan PoeWhen the "Dead" Rose in Britain
Author: Nicole C. SalomonePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476646198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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 death. Fears of premature burials were materialized as newspapers across Europe printed hundreds of articles about people who had been misdiagnosed as dead and were then buried--or nearly buried--alive. These stories, tallied in this text, present the first contemporary statistic of how frequently misdiagnosed death led to premature burial during the eighteenth century. The public consciousness of premature burial manifested itself in many ways, including the necessity of having a wake before a funeral and the creation of safety coffins. This book also explores the folkloric phenomenon of the rising dead and the stories that inspired a number of authors including Coleridge, Byron and Stoker, who blended medical understanding with fiction to create vampire literature.
A Text-book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology
Author: John GlaisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forensic toxicology
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Premature Burial
Author: Edgar Allan Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN: 9781521111604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe The Premature Burial is a horror fiction by Edgar Allan Poe. In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy," a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried alive ("The true wretchedness," he says, is "to be buried while alive."). He emphasizes his fear by mentioning several people who have been buried alive. In the first case, the tragic accident was only discovered much later, when the victim's crypt was reopened. In others, victims revived and were able to draw attention to themselves in time to be freed from their ghastly prisons. The narrator reviews these examples in order to provide context for his nearly crippling phobia of being buried alive. As he explains, his condition made him prone to slipping into a trance state of unconsciousness, a disease that grew progressively worse over time. He became obsessed with the idea that he would fall into such a state while away from home, and that his state would be mistaken for death. He extracts promises from his friends that they will not bury him prematurely, refuses to leave his home, and builds an elaborate tomb with equipment allowing him to signal for help in case he should awaken after "death".
The Technical Delusion
Author: Jeffrey SconcePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478002441
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Delusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred years. In The Technical Delusion Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of this phenomenon from its origins in Enlightenment anatomy to our era of global interconnectivity. While psychiatrists have typically dismissed such delusions of electronic control as arbitrary or as mere reflections of modern life, Sconce demonstrates a more complex and interdependent history of electronics, power, and insanity. Drawing on a wide array of psychological case studies, literature, court cases, and popular media, Sconce analyzes the material and social processes that have shaped historical delusions of electronic contamination, implantation, telepathy, surveillance, and immersion. From the age of telegraphy to contemporary digitality, the media emerged within such delusions to become the privileged site for imagining the merger of electronic and political power, serving as a paranoid conduit between the body and the body politic. Looking to the future, Sconce argues that this symptom will become increasingly difficult to isolate, especially as remote and often secretive powers work to further integrate bodies, electronics, and information.