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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... 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 routinely turned over to the surgeons . This ...
... Diemen's Land , c . 1827 , by George Frankland 51 58 Ellen or Martha , c . 1824 , by George Boyes . Ground Plan of the Female Factory , 1827 63 71 Mary McLauchlan's Convict Record , 1828-1830 . Tasmania , c . 1890 Plan of Oyster Cove ...
... Diemen's Land ) . These two places were closely related in the British colonial world , and exploring past uses of human remains in them enriches our under- standing of twenty - first century dealings with the dead . Examination of the ...
... Diemen's Land ( from 1803 ) , they performed their science in creative ways , seeking advantage in these penal colonies and a system of medicine that was , in the main , government controlled . Two demographic facts made these colonies ...
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