Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Name: Death, Dissection and the Destitute
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ISBN: 9780226712406

ISBN-10: 0226712400

ISBN-13: 9780226712406

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Ruth Richardson

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In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 453
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Body



The Corpse and Popular Culture



The Corpse as an Anatomical Object



The Corpse as a Commodity



The Act



The Sanctity of the Grave Asserted



Foregone Conclusions



'Trading Assassins'



Alternative Necrology



Bringing 'Science to the Poor Man's Door'



The Aftermath



The Act 'is Uninjurious if Unknown'



The Bureaucrat's Bad Dream



The Unpardonable Offence


Appendices


References


Bibliography


Afterword


Index