Human Remains: Dissection and Its HistoriesYale University Press, 2006 M01 1 - 220 páginas Until 1832, when an Act of Parliament began to regulate the use of bodies for anatomy in Britain, public dissection was regularlyand legallycarried 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 Diemens Land, a penal colony in which a ready supply of bodies was available. Not only convicted murderers, but also Aborigines and the unfortunate poor who died in hospitals were routinely turned over to the surgeons. This sensitive but searing account shows how abuses happen even within the conventions adopted by civilized societies. It reveals how, from Burke and Hare to todays televised dissections by German anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens, some peoples bodies become other peoples entertainment. |
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... 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 Aborigines and the unfortunate poor who died in hospital were ...
... Congress Control Number 2006920595 ISBN 0-300-11699-3 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . 10 9 8 7 6 54321 For Patrick and Anna CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction.
... British and American audiences . I am delighted that the book is published in Britain and the United States , by Yale University Press , for human dissection was a practice that linked the old world and the new , and British - trained ...
... British medical authorities wish this anatomist would disappear . He set off a chain of events that focused attention on how their science was carried out . Journalists consulted files and learned a little about those earlier public dis ...
... British law , for such things are only meant to be done under licences issued by Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy , and in suitably scientific premises . An old brewery hardly qualifies . The German anatomist had read the British ...