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001			45100353
003			OCoLC
005			20241205031444.0
008			000912s2001 nyua b 001 0 eng
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035			_a(OCoLC)45100353
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dNLM _dCUY _dMNY _dBAKER _dNLGGC _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dIG# _dILU _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dDEBBG _dOCLCQ _dCDN _dOCLCQ _dALCCP _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dDHA _dOCLCA _dVBO _dTXJAS _dOCLCQ _dOWU
042			_apcc
082			_a616.078
100	1		_aBondeson, Jan _9525
245	1	0	_aBuried alive : _bthe terrifying history of our most primal fear / _cJan Bondeson
264		1	_aNew York : _bNorton, _c2001
300			_a320 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aMiracles 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?
520	1		_a"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."
520	8		_a"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
520	8		_aFinally, he questions whether our medical criteria today for determining if someone is dead are truly reliable."--Jacket
650		0	_aBurial, Premature _9526
650		0	_aDeath _xProof and certification _9527
650		0	_aPhobias _9529
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