Buried Alive

The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

By: Jan Bondeson

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Paperback | 1 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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 1800s 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 horrific, 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. "A weird and wonderful little tome."--Salon.com "Bondeson weaves a strange disturbing, and weirdly enthralling tale. Cremation never sounded so good."--Lingua Franca "A most useful and entertaining book....Deserves a place on every bedside table in America."--Patrick McGrath, author of Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution "A necrobibliac classic: it may keep you up all night--not from fear but from fascination."--Kirkus Reviews starred review.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General History of Medicine Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Death & Dying Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture History Family & Health

Introduction	p. 9
Miracles of the Dead	p. 17
The Lady with the Ring and the Lecherous Monk	p. 35
Winslow the Anatomist and Bruhier the Horror Monger	p. 51
The Eighteenth-Century Debate	p. 72
Hospitals for the Dead	p. 88
Security Coffins	p. 118
The Signs of Death	p. 137
Skeptical Physiologists and Raving Spiritualists	p. 155
The Final Struggle	p. 183
Literary Premature Burials	p. 204
Were People Really Buried Alive?	p. 238
Are People Still Being Buried Alive?	p. 258
Notes	p. 283
Index	p. 309
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