Human Remains Dissection and Its Histories

Name: Human Remains Dissection and Its Histories
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ISBN: 9780300136364

ISBN-10: 0300136366

ISBN-13: 9780300136364

Edition: 2006

Authors: Helen MacDonald

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Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularly—and legally—carried out on the bodies of murderers, and a shortage of cadavers gave rise to the infamous murders committed by Burke and Hare to supply dissection subjects to Dr. Robert Knox, the anatomist. This book tells the scandalous story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before the use of human remains was regulated. Helen MacDonald looks particularly at the activities of British surgeons in nineteenth-century Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in which a ready supply of bodies was available. Not only convicted murderers, but also…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.45" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English