{"product_id":"mummies-cannibals-and-vampires-9781138934009","title":"Mummies Cannibals and Vampires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMummies, Cannibals and Vampires\u003c\/em\u003e charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise of this edition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003eJohn Henry, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Edinburgh, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003eMiriam Jacobson, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Georgia, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Richard Sugg’s book \u003cem\u003eMummies, Cannibals, and Vampires\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003eCharles Levine, \u003cem\u003eMesa Community College, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise of the previous edition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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. ' – \u003cem\u003eCotswold History Blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I do not write this lightly - \u003cem\u003eMummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\" - \u003cem\u003eAmazon.com Customer Review, 5 Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sugg's book offers itself as a 'history' of corpse medicine. Though it is the work of a well-known literary scholar, \u003cem\u003eMummies, Cannibals and Vampires \u003c\/em\u003einvokes 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\"\u003cstrong\u003e–\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMichael Neill, London Review of Books.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019543282007,"sku":"9781138934009","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138934009.jpg?v=1750780580","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mummies-cannibals-and-vampires-9781138934009","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}