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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... Mary McLauchlan Chapter 3 : Interlude Chapter 4 : The Bone Collectors ix xi I II 42 86 96 136 183 Chapter 5 : Death and Dissection , 1869 Chapter 6 : The Use and Abuse of Human Remains Endnotes 190 Bibliography Index 198 213 LIST OF ...
... Factory , 1827 63 71 Mary McLauchlan's Convict Record , 1828-1830 . Tasmania , c . 1890 Plan of Oyster Cove Station and Graves , 1851 , by George Robinson . 84 89 95 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Joseph Barnard Davis , date unknown , ix I.
... Mary McLauchlan's death and dissection . Elsewhere in Australia , I thank those who work with the archives and manu- scripts at the National Library of Australia , the State Library of New South Wales ( Mitchell and Dixson Libraries ) ...
... Mary McLauchlan , William Lanney and Truganini — have been named in different ways elsewhere . For consistency , they appear here in this form throughout . INTRODUCTION PERFORMING ANATOMY H ERE WE SIT , IN THE xiv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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